![]() It then backtracks four days to teacher Kit Chaplin, Rose’s father, who struggles to understand the situation before him when students develop an audible ticking in their ear. Well, BBC Radio presenter Simon Mayo sure can write a darned good thriller! I really enjoyed his last book Knife Edge and eagerly anticipate this one and I’m most definitely not disappointed!Ī dramatic and very tense situation develops on board a No 27 bus which increases exponentially when Rose Chaplin tries to board. *I was invited to read Tick Tock by the publisher and have given an honest unbiased review in exchange * The storyline becomes ever more tense and dangerous, as Kit and Lilly get closer to the truth of what is really going on here! A cracker of a read and another winner for Simon Mayo! As the disease spreads, this embarrassing relationship will be the least of their worries! Lilly’s daughter Jess and Kit’s daughter Rose find the relationship embarrassing to say the least. We then go back even further, to eighteen months before this strange phenomenon began, back to when teacher Kit Chaplin met Lilly, the mother of one of his English students. Most people found it hilarious and thought it was probably tinnitus, it wasn’t tinnitus and it wasn’t hilarious - it was a nightmare! Everyone can actually hear the clicking in other people’s ears. Tick Tock begins in the present and then goes back to four days earlier, as it slowly builds the storyline over the coming days, to when the tick tock ‘clicking’ sound began in peoples ears. Tick Tock’ takes place post Covid, and I would probably have chosen not to read it whilst Covid was at its very worst, however, having read Simon Mayo’s previous novel Knife Edge ( which was particularly good) I decided to give it a chance, and I’m very glad I did. Utterly exciting, urgently contemporary, piercingly insightful, it more than confirms the promise of his bestselling and acclaimed first thriller, Knife Edge. ![]() It tells the story of a different kind of pandemic through the eyes of three people at the heart of the storm. Tick Tock is the compelling new novel from master storyteller and legendary DJ, Simon Mayo. And how it's going to threaten his world. Kit is more concerned about his students - and his young daughter, Rose - but little by little he gets sucked into where this mystery illness might have come from. But as the virus rips through the school and into the outside world, the world starts to take notice. Even eminent bacteriologist and his partner Lilly Slater can't help him. In the north London school where it is first discovered, head of English, Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. There is a paranoid panic which sets friend against friend, neighbour against neighbour. The hospitals are overflowing and there is no cure. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges, small outbreaks at first, contained groups of people, young and old, and suddenly it's a plague - and ten days later it's killing people. It gets worse - and then you pass it on.īefore you know it, it spreads. A tick tick ticking you can hear in your ear.
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