Metronome: The 'unputdownable' BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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Whitney is her companion, playing chess with the wind over the radio and insisting it’s the warden checking in on them. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I think she was so delirious from the journey and her injury she imagined them rescuing her and she in fact died. According to Wille, fire speeds things up for example, water slows things down; air gives focus and earth opens out. They’re nearing the end of their sentence - over a decade - but they haven't heard anything from their captors for a while.Whitney’s obeisance to the regime is particularly perplexing, most especially in being entirely unexamined.

But Bloomsbury did a great job getting the proofs out early and raising awareness, so I’m sure that helped. In terms of debuts, I thoroughly enjoyed Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, and Victoria Park by Gemma Reeves is exquisite.

Using flashbacks Watson takes us back to Aina and Whitney’s life in an unspecified country which is very much like ours, but with small yet noticeable differences. They spent their time attending to the ground, attempting to grow food with regular exercise as well as an ancient jigsaw. Via flashbacks, the author takes the reader back to Aina and Whitney’s former lives, to how they met.

Their relationship has been understandably challenged, twelve years with nobody but your spouse would be difficult for even the most solid of couples after all, but they’ve been able to rub along together, knowing that there was an end point in sight.And finally, what advice would you give to anyone thinking of entering the Caledonia Novel Award 2023? He was shortlisted with this debut, Metronome, for the Bridport Prize, and with another piece, ‘Magda’, at the Bristol Short Story Prize. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. Not dismissing an element of brainwashing, one could argue whether they actually live on an island – after the discovery of ‘a spine.