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Metronome: The 'unputdownable' BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Metronome: The 'unputdownable' BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick


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Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award


'Unputdownable … An extraordinary book … as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell’s 1984’ Litro

'With echoes of Emily St John Mandel and Megan Hunter' Elizabeth Macneal

Stylish and thoughtful … The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review

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Not all that is hidden is lost…

For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. They’ve kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.

Shipwrecks have begun washing up, supply drops have stopped and on the day their punishment is meant to end, the Warden does not come. Instead a sheep appears; but sheep can’t swim.

Aina becomes convinced that they’ve been abandoned, and that Whitney has been keeping secrets. As she starts testing the limits of their prison, investigating ways she might escape, she is confronted by decisions that haunt her past. Little does she realise that her biggest choice is yet to come…

'Taut, unsettling and so completely charged with both tension and emotion' Naomi Ishiguro
'As moving as it is chilling' Emma Stonex

Reader Reviews
'An original and gripping read'
'Addictive and atmospheric'
'A haunting and original dystopian story'
'Compelling and absorbing'
'A refreshing change from the norm'



About the Author :
Tom Watson is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, where he was the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize in memory of Giles Gordon. His debut novel, Metronome, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his short fiction has been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize and awarded runner-up for the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize. He lives in London.

Review :
Taut, unsettling and so completely charged with both tension and emotion, I found myself captivated by Metronome. I loved the clarity of its vision and the clean intensity of its prose, and I know that its vivid characters and the bleak, brutal beauty of the world they inhabit will haunt my dreams for a long time now, in the absolute best of ways With echoes of Emily St John Mandel and Megan Hunter, this haunting literary thriller is about survival, loss and the binds that unite and break us. Chilling, eerie and powerful A pure, tender, terrifying vision that had me gripped to its beat from the first page. Cleverly imagined and beautifully creepy, it’s a story as moving as it is chilling

Echoes the likes of Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven … A compellingly crafted debut, rich in tension and atmosphere

Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity I loved it … You could feel the chill of the wind … Fantastic; it’s a great book Stylish and thoughtful … The setup is delicious … A talented writer. The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while. The relationship between his characters is memorably, and often wittily, drawn A great debut novel that tells a story of survival and mistrust with skill and craft

Unputdownable … An extraordinary book … Metronome might well be a brave new world created by Tom Watson, as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell’s 1984

Tom Watson has conjured a relationship corroded by compromise and capitulation, and worked it into an extraordinary love story — or rather, a story of what love looks like when affection and trust have fallen away Dystopian island drama that packs a punch … A bold debut Atmospheric … Watson’s use of language is nuanced and sensitive, with landscape writing especially a sensory highlight An element of 1984 and Big Brother is watching you … I found myself squirreling off just so I could get another quick chapter in … It’s such a page-turner It really gave an insight to the human psyche, the power of the mind The rhythm of the book is what struck me


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781526639561
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: The 'unputdownable' BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick
  • Width: 128 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1526639564
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 270 gr


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