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On the Calculation of Volume III

By: Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith - translator, Jennifer Russell - translator
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
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I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday.

Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern; a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale and he remembers all the days that have come before. He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind: trapped in the eighteenth of November, but no longer alone.

Together they learn to share their present; their voices grow hoarse recounting their small battles against it and their bewilderment at the disintegrating world. Henry sees things differently to Tara: he does not think that time will put itself back together and he does not think that the future will come around. But he makes her realise that she is no longer the same person she was before this fault in time. And he makes her believe that there may be others to find within it.

©2025 Solvej Balle (P)2025 Faber & Faber Fantasy Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel World Literature
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I loved the first two books and was very much looking forward to this one. It’s been a long wait. It’s still interesting but feels more as though the author had a lot of theories and chose this as a vehicle to express them. That’s her prerogative of course but I felt it ultimately detracted from what until then had been an intriguing, highly original story. Also wearying of hearing lists of things the main character sees or hears or thinks about - again this often feels strained now. Another slightly awkward vehicle. Still interested in the story but it no longer feels like the masterpiece I initially found it - especially Book 1. Very trite ending to Book 3 too.
New narrator a bit slow and tedious, with none of the wonderful expression of the Books 1 & 2 narrator.
Still holding out hope for future books but definitely a bit disappointed.

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