The Singularities : A Novel by John Banville gift character-driven history on the grandest

character-driven history on the grandest but also the most human scale

' - Kate Mosse

and proof that fact is always fascinatingly more devilish than fiction

tells the story of the mature Eliot

The Singularities : A Novel by John Banville gift character-driven history on the grandestA man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and