![]() Byron’s mother, Diana, is late for the school run one day and takes a short cut through a sink estate. ![]() James is the cleverest boy in the school and he imparts all manner of interesting facts to Byron, including the news that two seconds will be added to time in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Eleven-year-old Byron is struggling to make sense of life in early 1970s Britain while Jim, at fiftysomething, is struggling to survive in a world he doesn’t understand after years in and out of a psychiatric hospital.īyron is a stolid, middle-class boy attending a private school where he and his best friend, James Lowe, are academic, non-sporty outsiders. The story is set in 1972 and the present day and follows the lives of two characters. That she then calls her second novel Perfect, an open goal if it is anything but, shows her mettle. ![]() Admired by critics and much loved by readers and book groups, it was always going to be a hard act to follow. ![]() With The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, her best-selling debut novel, Rachel Joyce created a rod for her own back. ![]()
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