Destiny and time are the themes of this novel. Can we really alter time? Would we or could we change any details of our lives if we had the opportunity to go back in time? Michael Grant, who flirts with suicide, is given this opportunity. The ending may be surprising!
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Destiny and time are the themes of this novel. Can we really alter time? Would we, or could we, change any details of our lives if we had the opportunity to go back in time? Michael Grant, who flirts with suicide, is given this opportunity. The ending may be surprising! The novel begins and ends in the year 2000, though the main action takes place in 1966, set in Aberystwyth (Wales), Switzerland and Berlin.
Destiny and time are the themes of this novel. Can we really alter time? Would we, or could we, change any details of our lives if we had the opportunity to go back in time? Michael Grant, who flirts with suicide, is given this opportunity. The ending may be surprising! The novel begins and ends in the year 2000, though the main action takes place in 1966, set in Aberystwyth (Wales), Switzerland and Berlin.
About the Author
Humphrey Muller, once a professor of English in South Africa during the Apartheid years, moved to Scotland to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels (A Twist in Time, the Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, Continental Drift), and with his wife Carolyn has co-authored two novels (Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy by 'Carolyn Charles').
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By "dbutton3"
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A Twist in Time by Charles Muller begins on a daring and raucous note with the protagonist Michael talking about his fascination with porn videos - a scene which the author has achieved with the precision pace and timing you would expect of a well-rehearsed comedy actor. The book continues to entertain with sizzling scenes of sexual encounter and prose so packed full of innuendoes and subtleties that you are tempted to read pages again to pick them all up. You certainly feel you are in a master's hands as Muller cleverly and convincingly builds up sexual tension between the protagonist and the manipulative Samantha and goes on to thrill the reader with detailed descriptions of some unusual (and often embarrassing) sexual encounters. Gullible, likeable Michael wins the readers hearts even more when he lets naughty Samantha take full advantage of his naivety and lack of sexual experience. It is at this point in the book you realise that Charles Muller is not merely describing sex for the sake of entertaining. There is clearly a much deeper message in A Twist in Time:- society has not learned a mature way of dealing with human sexuality, turning it too hastily into an act of shame, disgrace and guilt. Sex, which is our human nature, one of our fundamental needs and methods of expressing feelings of love and joy must not be ignored, closeted and twisted into something nasty and dirty.
The story weaves in some interesting comments and ponderings on life, time, religion and the inter-connection of things as it moves on its pleasant-paced and humorous path in time. A touching story of sex which is not just tantalising and exciting, but realistic, down-to-earth, non-pretentious, heart-felt and believable. Though the ending of the book may have been a twist too far, the rest turns and twists in some very amusing and poignant ways.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Once I started A TWIST IN TIME I couldn't put it down! For one thing, it's very sensual, yet frank and open. The characters are all interesting and full of life - I was drawn right in to the story, with much sympathy for Michael, who had to put up with the strange British accents and weather - for a start! And I kept smiling and nodding to myself over several scenes, sometimes ironic and humorous, which thankfully lighten the darker mood of loneliness and pain Michael struggles to surmount.
When I got to the end of the book I had to go back and read again the last two chapters, because I wasn't sure what version was a "replay" and what actually happened. Was that the author's intent?
It's an interesting concept that no matter what we do we can't alter (except in little twists) the end result of our ultimate destiny. I suppose if we don't reach it we'll have to carry on in another realm or reincarnation!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Charles Humphrey Muller came to Scotland from South Africa where he was a professor of English Literature, with the intention of buying a small hotel and concentrating on his writing. He now has several books under his belt, both fiction and non-fiction, and even runs his own Internet publishing company, Diadem Books.
"A Twist in Time" is the sad story of Michael Grant, a twisted individual, married to the wrong woman and who hates his life. He's depressed and suicidal. He wonders all the while how his life might have turned out if he had the chance to live it all over again and to make different choices.
He is given that chance and we see him apparently making the same mistakes with the same girl all over again - but does he really? All through the 60's we follow the re-run of Michael's life and eventually discover that some surprising changes have indeed been made.
This book is meticulously written, nothing is left out and while the plot seems straight enough, the time-twists can be slightly disconcerting for the reader. It is well worth the effort however. Although there are some explicit and powerful sex-scenes, the narrative mainly proceeds at a measured pace. It's perhaps not the book you'd give great-auntie Millie for her birthday, but nevertheless good adult fiction with an unpredictable, slightly unbelievable ending.
This work is meaty and sustaining and could in no way be termed lightweight or frivolous. It's a good, square meal and two veg which will give the reader much food for thought and no little enjoyment.
Pat Miller, The Jedburgh Courier No2 Sept 2000
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