Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)
Author: Mervyn Peake
Desc: In this final part of the trilogy we follow Titus now almost twenty as he escapes from the Castle flees its oppressive Ritual and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo Muzzlehatch and his ex-lover Juno Titus ends up stranded in a big bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast the general consensus is that the boy is deranged and with no papers he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story or at least who are intrigued by it and they try to help him. And now Titus the deserter the traitor longs for his home and looks for it all the time to prove if only to himself that Gormenghast is truly real.