On the Calculation of Volume

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin?

** A NEW YORKER, OBSERVER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ** A new audio edition read by Genevive Gaunt, twice winner of the AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Tara Selter has slipped out of time. It was clear that the day always returned to...

** A NEW YORKER, OBSERVER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff Shortlisted for...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for Literature Narrated by Genevieve Gaunt, twice winner of the AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award The second volume of the poetic, page-turning European masterpiece about a woman's fall through the cracks of time...

Tara Selter is searching for a way back into time. A year has passed, but Tara still wakes up to the same newspapers, and the same blank faces when she explains that she has seen this all before. Until one morning, she boards a train and finds herself in a new day. It is still the eighteenth of November, but the faces are different, the weather is colder. She realises that she has found a way out of her endless autumn.

Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern; a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale and he remembers all the days that have come before. He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind: trapped in the eighteenth of November, but no longer alone. Together they learn to share their present; their voices grow hoarse recounting their small battles against it and their bewilderment at the disintegrating world.

Tara Selter's world is expanding. 'A literary phenomenon nearly 40 years in the making.' The Cut 'A classic in the making.' Chetna Maroo 'Startling.' New Yorker 'Absolutely wonderful.' Lauren...

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. Tara has returned to...