This took me back to reading mid-century speculative fiction, and I mean that as a huge compliment. Another 200 years pass, and Gaspery, a detective in the moon’s Night City, is tasked with interviewing Edwin and Olive in order to help solve the mystery of an anomaly in time. In her most famous novel, a man plays a violin in an airship terminal as the trees of a forest momentarily appear around him. 200 years later, Olive, a famous writer, is visiting Earth from her home in the second moon colony, undertaking a global book tour as a pandemic begins its spread. In British Columbia, he walks into the virgin forest and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air.
To summarise the blurb: in 1912, Edwin is exiled to Canada from English society.
After thoroughly enjoying Station Eleven recently I’d promised myself I’d read more from Emily St John Mandel, and then I read the blurb for this and couldn’t resist.
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