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Title: Relativity
Author: Antonia Hayes
Narrator: Antonia Hayes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-07-16
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Before your brain can register what you're being told, you know that something is wrong. And before you can respond, it's already too late. Because once you've heard those words, an event is set into motion and everything will change.
"Help," he said. "He's not breathing." A tiny baby is rushed to hospital. Doctors find an injury to his brain and suspect he was shaken by his father, who is later charged and convicted. The baby grows up in the care of his mother. Life goes on.
Twelve years later, Ethan is now a singular young boy. Gifted with an innate affinity for physics and astronomy, Ethan sees the world in ways his classmates (and even his mum and teachers) simply can't - through a prism of light, time, stars and space.
Ethan is the centre of his mother's universe. Claire has tried to keep him safe - from illness, from feeling 'different', and from finding out what happened when he was a baby. But the older Ethan gets, the more questions he asks about his childhood and the father whose lifelong absence can't be explained by a single crushed photograph and a name, Mark, which is all Ethan has of him to cling to.
A single handwritten letter is all it takes to set off a chain of events which demand that the gravity of pure love pull both parents into Ethan's orbit. As the years seem to warp and bend, the past is both relived and revealed anew for each of them.
Relativity is an irresistible story about love, unbreakable bonds, irreversible acts and science.
Critic Reviews:
"Relativity is wonderful, a beautifully written, heartbreaking novel that I feel certain will find the huge audience it deserves." (S J Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep and Second Life)
"Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair, honest and remarkably non-judgemental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive." (Christis Tsiolkas, author of The Slap)
"The race towards the conclusion keeps us guessing, but ultimately, it's the beautifully drawn characters who stay with you long after the final page." (Australian Women's Weekly)
"Relativity is a transcendental book that manages to stay grounded and true in its warmth and pathos. With fully realised characters and a gripping storyline that unfolds into a carefully constructed equation of familial love, I could not put it down." (Alice Pung, author of Unplolished Gem and Laurinda)
"Pulls you into the moment like you've unexpectedly pin-dropped through Antarctic ice...Relativity upends expectations and holds you in its thrall as Hayes asks unsettling questions about the frailties of memory and love...An Australian debut not to be missed." (Readings Monthly)
Members Reviews:
Complex and beautiful
The writing is so fluid and sophisticated. Who knew reading about physics would be so moving? Literally moved from emotion to emotion right alongwith the story. I experienced such a range of feelings toward the same characters. Lovely work about the power of forgiveness.
The boy who can see physics
Loved the blend of interesting science and family story in this complex and beautiful novel. Such a well-written book, so many of the sentences were like jewels. Ethan was such a finely drawn and magical character. The boy who can see physics will stay with me for a long time.
