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dc7's review against another edition
5.0
"A Clock Without Hands" (also sometimes known under its alternative title "The Dandelion Clock") is one of my favourite thrillers ever.
It is a literary thriller and very much a slow-burn, but it had me hooked nonetheless. The characters feel like real people, their stories are told from Alex's point of view who as a child lived in a small Italian village, but is now an grown man (approx. 45-50), an artist, and normally lives in the UK but has now returned to his childhood home in Italy.
[b:Call Me By Your Name|36336078|Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)|André Aciman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519203520l/36336078._SY75_.jpg|1363157] reminded me a bit of this book with it's small town Italian setting and slow-burn, emotional and realistic plot. Like any Guy Burt book this one too has a phenomenal plot twist at the end. If you liked [b:Call Me By Your Name|36336078|Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)|André Aciman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519203520l/36336078._SY75_.jpg|1363157] and would like to read a similar book, then this one is for you.
It is a literary thriller and very much a slow-burn, but it had me hooked nonetheless. The characters feel like real people, their stories are told from Alex's point of view who as a child lived in a small Italian village, but is now an grown man (approx. 45-50), an artist, and normally lives in the UK but has now returned to his childhood home in Italy.
[b:Call Me By Your Name|36336078|Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)|André Aciman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519203520l/36336078._SY75_.jpg|1363157] reminded me a bit of this book with it's small town Italian setting and slow-burn, emotional and realistic plot. Like any Guy Burt book this one too has a phenomenal plot twist at the end. If you liked [b:Call Me By Your Name|36336078|Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)|André Aciman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519203520l/36336078._SY75_.jpg|1363157] and would like to read a similar book, then this one is for you.
alarra's review against another edition
3.0
Lovely bittersweet story that has reliable-yet-not narrator thinking his way through the relationships he build as one of a trio of friends and an incident of their shared summers that traces an inevitable road to tragedy in that future.
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