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@2@@20@A devastating and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of holding onto the past - and the price of letting it go. @21@@3@@2@@20@'The clear-eyed, evocative writing here is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, and anyone familiar with @18@The Handmaid's Tale@19@ will find resonance in these pages... a devastating debut'@21@@16@@18@Toronto Star@19@@16@@18@@19@@16@@20@'@18@An Ocean Of Minutes@19@ absolutely swept me away' @21@@16@@20@@21@@18@Red@19@ @18@Magazine@19@@3@@2@Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank is dying. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. And she must leave everything she loves behind, including Frank.@3@@2@All they have is the promise of a future together: they will find each other again in twelve years' time, in Galveston, Texas, where the sea begins.@3@@2@But when something goes wrong and Polly arrives late, Frank is nowhere to be found. Completely alone, Polly must navigate a terrifying new world to find him, and to discover if their love has endured.@3@@2@@20@'A profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love... This is a story about the malleability of time, but at its core lives something timeless'@21@@16@Omar El Akkad, author of @18@American War@19@@3@@2@@20@'Strikingly imaginative... unlike anything I've ever read, rich with pinpoint emotional insight and fierce, vivid observations about a future that's already our past' @21@@16@@20@@21@Elan Mastai, author of @18@All Our Wrong Todays@19@@16@@18@@19@@16@@20@'A buoyant, compelling tale ranging from the everyday beauty of falling in love to a frightening vision of a dystopian present day... boundless and dynamic'@21@@16@Jennie Melamed, author of @18@Gather the Daughters @19@@3@@2@@20@@18@'An Ocean of Minutes@19@ offers that rare combination of a provocative speculative setting, masterfully elegant writing, and a story that moves and haunts long after the last page'@21@@16@David Chariandy, author of @18@Brother@19@@3@...
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Timely... like the best dystopian worlds, Thea Lim's debut resonates with the present... a fresh perspective on the complex subjects of migration and displacement that plague our world today Irish Times
