Ever tried waking up yesterday instead of tomorrow? That is just the beginning of Tristan's troubles as his life is hijacked to reveal the future.
“Merlin knew the future because he was living backwards through time.” The inspiration for this novel was an almost throwaway line in the Once and Future King by T.H. White that I have remembered since childhood.
What would life be like for someone like that?
This is not a time travel book in the usual sense. Amid the humour, action and mind-bending twists of plot, this book will make you challenge your perception of conscious thought and become more aware of how consciousness connects one moment to another.
Tristan is a scientist researching the nature of time. An experiment goes wrong and starts him on a journey living backwards through time that will last a millennium. He wakes every morning, on the morning of the day before, knowing what will happen tomorrow but not what will happen that day or what happened yesterday.
In the year 2001,Tristan's life is being slowly hijacked by terrorists. One day he wakes up married, in Bali, leaving for London and enmeshed in a plot to gain a glimpse of the future at any cost. Quite a jump from what he remembers of the next few days - a quiet bachelor life in Sydney.