Tanglewreck
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Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two sinister figures come looking for it, she knows instinctively that she must guard it with her life.
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2 primary books#1 in Tanglewreck
Tanglewreck is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Jeanette Winterson.
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Tanglewreck is definitely uneven storytelling, I think. The parts that give a fairy-tale take on quantum physics are really fun an interesting, but the characters feel empty. The language play is fun, but feels like watered-down Winterson to me.
In the end the narrative just didn't hold my attention enough. This is often true of Winterson's books for me–but the richness of the language makes up for it, generally. With this book, not so much. Sure, there are great ideas here–one character using twins as a fairy-tale explanation of particle entanglement, for instance–but the execution of the ideas left me wanting.
Maybe I'll go reread A Wrinkle In Time.
