A veteran of the stage and a radio playwright before turning to fiction, Joyce specializes in the sort of insights that some find charming, others cloying and a style that could sometimes pass for fairy tale, other times for Young Adult (though those readers wouldn’t have much patience for her plotting). And whether or not something happens, everything changes. It’s the difference between something happening and something not happening.” And with the addition of those two seconds-or not-something happens-or not. Two seconds are nothing,” Byron responds, “That’s what nobody realizes. After his mother assures him that “hen it happens you won’t notice. The protagonist is 11-year-old Byron, a reflective and innocent schoolboy who becomes overly concerned when his best friend, James, tells him that two seconds will be added to this leap year to somehow even things out. and her native Britain with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), Joyce returns with an even less likely but more ambitious piece of fictional fancy. Having earned a best-selling readership in both the U.S. The time is out of joint, as the follow-up to a popular novelistic debut brings a slightly darker edge to its fablelike whimsy.
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