There are books that invite you gently across their threshold, and then there are books that seize you by the collar, hurl you through a portal, and leave you blinking in some impossible, perpendicular world with wonky angles and a populace that considers human flesh a dietary option. Light of Hand: A Torus Novel by Geth McCrimmon is decidedly, gloriously, the latter. This debut fantasy novel announces itself with the kind of confidence typically reserved for authors several books deep into their career. McCrimmon has crafted something that feels simultaneously fresh and deeply rooted in the grand traditions of British portal fantasy, delivering a story where humour and mortal peril share the same sentence with enviable ease, and neither suffers for the company. Where Earth Ends and the Donut Begins The premise is deceptively simple at its origin. Tobias Chatterley is, by most measures, a fairly ordinary teenager whose greatest immediate concern is the retribution awaiting him after ricocheting a football off a teacher’s nose. His best friend, Jemima Catlock, is the sort of fiercely …