Mister Memory

Marcel, though a fascinating character, wasn't the real interest for me in this novel. I found far more in Petit, who is perhaps small in mind, or at times had been, but is far-and-away the most intriguing character here.

I don't know why, but I was reminded of reading matt Haig's How to stop Time and (perhaps a little more explicably) also Robert Harris's Officer and a Spy. Sedgwick has captured France well, and I was also conscious of the p-zombie argument throughout the novel, which of course works itself in much more detail in Robert Sawyer's Quantum Night.

Not a book I can say I enjoyed for the action scenes, nor really the newness of any particular idea, yet I kept turning the pages, to see where the players would end up.

Marcel, though a fascinating character, wasn't the real interest for me in this novel. I found far more in Petit, who is perhaps small in mind, or at times had been, but is far-and-away the most intriguing character here.

I don't know why, but I was reminded of reading matt Haig's How to stop Time and (perhaps a little more explicably) also Robert Harris's Officer and a Spy. Sedgwick has captured France well, and I was also conscious of the p-zombie argument throughout the novel, which of course works itself in much more detail in Robert Sawyer's Quantum Night.

Not a book I can say I enjoyed for the action scenes, nor really the newness of any particular idea, yet I kept turning the pages, to see where the players would end up.