If you like aliens, this is for you. To my knowledge, this is the first time that prize-winning (and excellent) author Sally Gardner has tackled the sci-fi genre, and she approaches it from a bizarre angle that does take some time to get used to.
The significance of the notepaper kind of becomes apparent later on.
The book itself takes the form of a series of interviews, conducted by a mysterious ‘Mr Jones’, whom we never hear speak. The book is made up of the testimonies of various people connected to the disappearance of one Becky Barns and the man she vanished with: a man named Icarus. Told mainly through the eyes of Becky’s friend, Jazmin, and other people connected to the case, fragments of the plot are revealed to us in increments- as well as hinting at the tragic fate of the people wrapped up in the case as the friends become embroiled in Icarus’s story, and the story of two people he is supposed to have pushed off the roof of St. Paul’s twenty years ago. But if he did, why hasn’t he aged a day?
The significance of the notepaper kind of becomes apparent later on.
The book itself takes the form of a series of interviews, conducted by a mysterious ‘Mr Jones’, whom we never hear speak. The book is made up of the testimonies of various people connected to the disappearance of one Becky Barns and the man she vanished with: a man named Icarus. Told mainly through the eyes of Becky’s friend, Jazmin, and other people connected to the case, fragments of the plot are revealed to us in increments- as well as hinting at the tragic fate of the people wrapped up in the case as the friends become embroiled in Icarus’s story, and the story of two people he is supposed to have pushed off the roof of St. Paul’s twenty years ago. But if he did, why hasn’t he aged a day?