Marjorie, Stacy, Raymond & Dora each hold a different story to their chest – lost loves, abandoned dreams, crippling self-confidence
...Ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester has returned from the war & is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient
...In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch.
Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very
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What If our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night & night becomes day? ' It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different
- unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night & night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, & on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life..? One morning, Julia & her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. & yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness & despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family & on herself.