The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Intriguing, imaginative, inventive, impressive. Claire North’s character Harry August and his fellow kalachakra live Groundhog lives rather than Groundhog Days. Unlike we normal ‘linear’ folk their lives are both sequential and repetitive in time. Like the Ouroboros continually swallowing its own tail, they “loop perpetually through the same course of historical events, though [their] lives within may change”. In his tenth life Harry could be both 32 and 530 years old. Parallel universes don’t quite fit the narrative, but once you accept the premise and go with the story it’s a great journey.
It’s quite long – my Kindle edition is 406 pages – but North keeps the story moving with action, intrigue and a mystery which develops into a thriller as Harry tries to stop the world rushing to a premature end brought about by the rogue actions of one of his fellows. To say more would be a spoiler, so I’ll just say I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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