‘The novel took a while to get going, but once absorbed in Thompson Walker’s literary tapestry I felt as though I, too, were facing Julia’s new world’
This coming of age novel is shown to us through the eyes of its narrator, Julia. The story, as original as it is flawlessly thoughtful, begins when Julia and her family wake up one morning to discover that, seemingly overnight, the world has completely changed; the pull of gravity has caused the world’s rotation to slow its orbit. Julia suddenly finds herself in the midst of more than one crisis; ‘the slowing’ causes the departure of her best friend, Hanna, to a Mormon colony far from where Julia lives, and brings the fissures in her parents’ marriage to the surface. Alongside all of this is Julia’s love for the mysterious skateboarder, Seth, a quiet boy in her maths class who always appears to be on his own.
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