Audiobook The Ted Dreams written by Fay Weldon. 'She's a queen of words' - Caitlin Moran 'It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept.' Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why is her new husband Robbie so interested in them? He works for a mysterious genetic research company called Portal Inc.