When It All Went To Custard
Danielle Hawkins
HarperCollins, $35.00,
ISBN 9781775541417
The Julian Calendar
William Henry
Marsilio Press, $35.00,
ISBN 9780958235556
What a difference a year can make. The plots of Danielle Hawkins’s When It All Went To Custard and William Henry’s The Julian Calendar both take place over exactly one year – just enough time to immerse readers in a rich story and see them through to the other side. While not the 24 hours Aristotle prescribed, these novels remind us that a year as a unity of time can still prove a useful device for portraying a full narrative arc.
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