Clock Without Hands

Burt, Guy

| 2007

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I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasnt like that; and the clock has no hands, so I cant turn them back. [p.171]Alex Carlise has returned to a place he thought hed never see again, outside of his dreams. As he walks the ochre-dusted road to the house in which he grew up, the memories of his young life in a small Italian town push all other thoughts out of his head: thoughts about the major exhibition of his artwork opening soon in London, thoughts of the myriad things he should be doing in preparationeverything subsides to make room for the warm flood of a time long past.When he opens the door to the now-deserted house, he is suddenly seven again. There is Jamie, his first friend, his best friend; Anna, his first love; and the delicious...

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