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

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

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

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The events move along at a good pace - for life on an exile island, and soon all is revealed to be not as we, or they, were lead to believe. I have mixed feelings about the ending, but there’s no denying that this is a well-written and satisfying page-turner. The descriptions of the island were very atmospheric and detailed to the point that I found myself dreaming I was on the island! Overall I found this a worthwhile read and one that seemed quite different to many of the books I I've read. It could tie in with Aina’s mantra Yan Tan Tethera (notice the word tether hidden there) with the Celtic method of counting sheep, and perhaps introduce the concept of a spirit animal.

Dystopian, suspenseful and atmospheric, the premise of this novel is that a married couple are coming to the end of their 12 year incarceration on a remote (fictional) island.Many assumptions have been made on the part of the reader, and to full effect – including the accuracy of the pill-dispensing clock, their trust in the pills doing their job, Aina’s watch telling the right time, keeping time, Whitney’s faith in the Warden who will offer them parole, and that certain supplies haven’t run out.

I really enjoyed the main plot that takes place on the island but the flashbacks let it down for me.I don't think I would have been as interested if the blurb had hinted at the central idea of population control through fertility regulation because this is a story that has been told many times. I can also see onto the island from a boat and so have the view of an outsider as well as having lived on the island for sometime. The festive holidays are the perfect time to escape the cold, cosy up with a hot drink and lose yourself in a new book. They've kept busy – Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps – but something is not right.

Once again, it is as if the author has come to rely on obfuscation to gain an effect; things are the way they are, not for any real reason but “just because”. Whitney and Aina were sent to remote island to carry out a prison sentence for raising a child without governmental consent. The pace and intensity increases as the story goes on, with an almost unbearable crescendo until the breathless last line.

Whitney stubbornly insists that they wait for the warden to rescue them, while Aina has given up thinking anyone will ever come. There is a storm in Metronome during my reading of it at roughly the same time as Dudley, Eunice and Franklin take hold. Just like the great Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale, this author doesn't inform the reader of how the world becomes what it is in this story.



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