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

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Me-tro-nome, the use of it in musical terms (Aina is a pianist with a mathematical brain, cunning and in control of her own life) and in timekeeping.

The pace and intensity increases as the story goes on, with an almost unbearable crescendo until the breathless last line. Does he like what’s going on in the world (at the time of writing Metronome it was the pandemic; at the time of writing this review, there is war in the Ukraine). Metronome’s rough landscape is surely spooky enough without any added non-ideal, ill-ideal, dis-ease, un-ideal .The connection to the sculptures is not obvious at first but once the connection is made, coupled with Whitney’s own artworks, it is explosive. The sudden appearance of a token sheep also throws things off kilter where, as readers, we are left pondering its significance.

As I said I was obviously in the minority and maybe it was as much to do with my frame of mind whilst reading as the writing itself!She is desperate to learn the fate of their son, Max, and fears her husband may be keeping this knowledge to himself.

Is the freedom for themselves or for someone else; do you give up your freedom for the sake of another?However, things start to go wrong and their hope of ever getting off the island starts to melt away. The book begins slowly but picks up speed and you hear the metronome ticking in your ear throughout. We learn of how they met and fell in love and contrasted with their present day predicament it feels jarring. It was interesting to find out that their crime was to go against the governments rules over having a baby. I would throw a few questions at her from Proust’s questionnaire; probably “what is your greatest regret”, “what is your motto” and “who are your heroes in real life”.