All The Time
In The World
When Callum inherits a flash drive from his father's estate, he finds Roman Flynne's entire life — reconstructed by a digital archive service into something like a novel. What he reads is the story of his parents.
Set across Ottawa and Toronto from 1988 through the early 1990s, All The Time In The World follows Roman and Elizabeth through their first drunk meeting at a party, the slow accumulation of their love, the marriage that nearly breaks them, and the morning Roman leaves a letter on the kitchen table and walks out the door. It is funny and devastating in equal measure — as much about friendship, ambition, and the particular loneliness of love at the wrong speed as it is about love itself.
At its center: a deceptively simple question about what we lose when we treat our lives as rehearsals.
Normal People — Sally Rooney · One Day — David Nicholls · Ask Again, Yes — Mary Beth Keane
Audio excerpt coming soon.