Is it a protest of sorts, in which fictionalising “transports to other places and other lives” (Amanda Saint). We follow this through Aina’s perspective as she recounts the story in fragments, trying to keep herself occupied when she’s done everything that she can possibly do. Aina’s creator, Tom Watson, now billed by Bloomsbury as a literary star of 2022, is a graduate of University of East Anglia (UEA) in creative writing, where he won the Curtis Brown Prize. it carries magical symbolism, and in terms of mythological and religious importance, it is said to represent perfection and entirety.

When Aina falls pregnant a third time after two refusals, and manages to find out that she has no chance of an approval third time around, she and Whitney decide to have the child and conceal it.Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. I had submitted things to her previously, so I knew who she was, and I was massively taken aback when Metronome won the Giles Gordon prize, which she judged for Curtis Brown.

Dystopias in which the state has seized control of women’s bodies are everywhere, from Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket to Christina Dalcher’s Vox and Joanne Ramos’s The Farm.They can stay safe by taking a pill every 8 hours, dispensed by an unassailable clock in the croft which releases one pill each, with a 3-minute window, on presentation of a thumbprint.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing a review copy in exchange for honest feedback. We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission. This author is so talented, the way that the relationship between Aina and Whitney chop and change throughout the novel is done so very well.

The elegant cover was what drew me to the book, and it was such an engaging and, at times, challenging piece of speculative fiction. 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? The festive holidays are the perfect time to escape the cold, cosy up with a hot drink and lose yourself in a new book. There's Some choices might not be theirs to make, but the themes are very current, whether dystopian or not.

I loved the idea of it when I read the blurb, and ny reading pal told me to talk to her about it when I was finished as she’d recently read it. In a way this is what religious faith is - neither can be proven as true or false but to have faith is either a comfort, a pathway to justice, or an obstacle to seeing the truth and transforms into shackles which hold you back.Metronome might well be a brave new world created by Tom Watson, as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell’s 1984. In Love Is Not Enough, Mark’s first Audible Original, you’ll follow five real people over the course of six months as they navigate f--ked up romantic situations, ranging from dating app addiction to marital affairs to absurd fantasies.