I'm not sure what I expected from the title, but this book wasn't entirely what I thought it would be, in some good ways and bad. The concept is an excellent one, and the way the two time strands are brought together is done well; there are themes that dance across the ages, showing that some things (alienation, love, loss) are always part of the human experience.

However, I felt I didn't enjoy the book as much as I could as the characters were not entirely fleshed out; I found it difficult to become invested in the fate of any of them, save Tayeb, perhaps.

Overall though it is a promising debut and I would like to see what else Suzanne Joinson writes.