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

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Being with your partner may feel like rainbows and unicorns, but that doesn't mean you have a healthy, functioning relationship. For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. pieces of advice you received as you embarked on writing Metronome , and can you tell us a bit about how you signed with your agent, Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown?

But although the underlying mystery and sense of threat is enough to keep us engaged and turning pages, the narrative eventually becomes overreliant on the deliberate withholding of information. When a stranger arrives with a daughter in tow, offering fear and hope, the stage is set for some impossible choices to be made. There is no doubting Watson’s talent at the sentence level, but his lack of rigour around core ideas left me frustrated and unconvinced. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive.Maybe this says something about Watson’s own life, why he was compelled to tell this particular story.

Lots of tension and suspense while not a lot was necessarily happening but it just let my imagination run riot and built the scene perfectly for when the action came later. When Billy can’t find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover. PS: I received a digital copy of this book at my request, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. She last promoted PR packages within the Press Association before full-time motherhood allowed Barbara to pursue her interest in Creative Writing. His debut novel, Metronome, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his short fiction has been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize and awarded runner-up for the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize.Ambiguity can be thought provoking but sometimes it’s just a cop out when the author leaves the reader to finish the book.

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish.

For me, the most meaningful advice comes from people you either love or respect, and ideally those who have read your work. When their crime is discovered they become social outcasts, condemned to serve a 12-year sentence of exile on a remote island in the north.