The Horizontal Instrument - Christopher Wilkins

7	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Transworld Publishers LTD
ISBN-10 : 0385600313 |

Philosophy (1), Memory (1), Time (1), Love Story (1), Loss (1), Dementia (1)

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When his wife, Elizabeth, dies from a disease which destroys her memory, then her personality and finally her physical being, watchmaker Robert Garrett decides to remember her by embarking on a special project. All his life he has been obsessed with an age old question: can there ever be such a thing as a perfectly accurate time piece? Elizabeth’ ... (more)

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Christopher Wilkins

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Heart breaking

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago at Apr 26 23:05

Upon finishing this I thought it was an interesting take on love, loss and grief about a man who losses his wife to dementia. At first it read like a book about time and timepieces interspersed with bits of the story but after awhile it became moments of introspective reflections on perspective, time, memory and how they are connected again interspersed with more of the story reading like two separate books in the one, yet fluidly moving within the two, until the two became the one and ended in a complete story that was quite heartbreaking probably even more so because of Wilkins’ writing style made it feel like someone was actually talking to you about their loss and their thoughts on that loss.

Rating : 7/10

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