Keeping Time, the new novel from writer and Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Thomas Legendre, is now available.
Described by Foreward Reviews as a 'a rich novel that explores the nature of a marriage and asks whether love is a monolith, a miracle of biology, or an artificial construct', Keeping Time follows archaeologist Aaron Keeler who finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, and as he becomes involved in a strangely illicit liaison with his younger wife, Violet. Violet, a brilliant musician, becomes captivated by the attentive, older version of her husband. The Aaron she recently married - an American expat - has become distant, absorbed by his excavation of a prehistoric site at Kilmartin Glen on Scotland's west coast, where he will soon make the discovery that launches his career. As Aaron travels back and forth across the span of nearly two decades, with time passing in both worlds, he faces a threat to his revelatory dig, a crisis with the older Violet—mother of his two young children—and a sudden deterioration of his health. Meanwhile, Violet's musical performances take on a resonance related to the secrets the two are uncovering in both time frames. With their children and Aaron's lives at risk, he and Violet try to repair the damage before it's too late.
Watch the Keeping Time trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOcneSMxrvw&t=114s
Find Keeping Time at Blackwells: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Keeping-Time-by-Thomas-Legendre-author/9781946724281
Posted on Thursday 4th June 2020