Catriona Silvey was born in Glasgow and grew up in Scotland and England. After collecting an unreasonable number of degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Chicago, and Edinburgh, she moved back to Cambridge where she lives with her husband and son. Her short stories have been performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.
Silvey's new novel is Meet Me in Another Life.
At the Waterstones blog she tagged five favorite books in the "rich tradition of tales that make the most of a time-bending conceit," including:
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate MascarenhasRead about the other entries on the list.
In a laboratory in Cumbria in 1967, four scientists invent time travel. Forty years later, the consequences play out in a locked room where anelderly woman is found murdered. Like This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Psychology of Time Travel features a time-travelling romance whose outcome is predetermined, but here, that inevitability is not a source of unequivocal joy. Grace, the time traveller in the relationship, is almost panicked to realise she has finally met her destined lover: “Ruby was it. After her, there was no one else.” Mascarenhas’s novel takes seriously the potential cognitive and emotional effects of time travel, but the singular in the title is deliberately misleading: just as there is no one psychology, people’s responses to the existence of time travel turn out to be as diverse and multifaceted as people themselves.
--Marshal Zeringue
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