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A woman knocks on Rory Cavenham’s door in the middle of a storm, convinced that the year is 1972. But she can’t remember how she got there or where she’s going, and she can’t explain why she thinks time is out of joint.
What is he to do? He’s had enough troubles in his own life; he doesn’t need any more. Yet the woman seems so lost that he can’t help taking pity on her.
She’s friendly and companionable, and before he knows it she’s sliding into his life. Inevitably, he’s drawn to her, and tries to help her unpick her past.
He learns of two women who seem to fit her description. But what of the mysterious people she’s frightened of? Their efforts turn into a race to find answers before the pursuers find them.
Part-mystery, part-detective story and part-romance, this book is all pace as it lunges towards its extraordinary conclusion.
A Knock at the Door opens with a claim by a woman to have travelled forward through time. So are we entering the realms of science fiction? Initially it seems not. As the story unfolds, plenty of other explanations are put forward for her strange belief.
Yet the time travel premise hovers as an outlying possibility – and therein lies the teasing contradiction of this tale. Although we’re encouraged to dismiss the idea, subliminally we’re primed to suspect it might be true. That suspicion starts to take substance when the book presents a brain-bending paradox: how can the mysterious women be two people at once?
Does it deliver an unambiguous answer? You’d better read it to find out! When you do, you’ll enjoy a few then-and-now side-swipes at twenty-first century life