SuitabookA handful of time
Kit Pearson
- Reading
- Try the opening together, then check in after the teasing and again once the watch’s effect becomes clear; let the reader decide whether to continue independently.
- Themes
- Belonging among family: Patricia arrives at her cousins’ cottage reluctant to go and feels she does not fit in; Kelly teases her. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- A parent’s childhood: The watch takes Patricia to the summer when her mother was twelve. The premise creates an opportunity to encounter a parent’s earlier life, but the story’s interpretation of that experience is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- Patricia is teased by Kelly and feels she does not fit in; the extent and resolution of this conflict are not established.