![]() In fact, his worst fears appear to come true when his beautiful and beloved mother, Diana, hits a girl on her bicycle while driving through a poor neighborhood. ![]() “It’s the difference between something happening and something not happening.” He has, for example, already told Byron how two seconds are being added to clock time, to bring it in synch with the movement of the earth. When James tells him of the little rituals that keep him safe - going over the multiplication tables in his mind or “running to your bedroom before the lavatory stops flushing” - Byron finds the idea comforting. Perhaps it is no wonder, then, that Byron worries. Even his father, who spends more time at his job in London than with his family, seems not to approve of him. Synopsis It is 1950, two unlikely women set off on a hare-brained adventure to the other side of the world to try and find a beetle, and in doing so discover friendship and how to be their best of themselves. With the exception of one friend, James, he is alone. As Rachel Joyce’s second novel opens, it is the summer of 1972 and the overweight and unpopular 11-year-old is the odd boy out. ![]() Fatimah Namdarīyron Hemmings is nobody’s idea of a hero. ![]() Rachel Joyce centers her second novel around an unpopular 11-year-old boy. ![]()
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