![]() ![]() Realizing he cannot handle the situation alone, Byron asks his best friend James to help fix things. ![]() He attempts to show it to his mother, but in this moment of distraction, something happens that will change their lives forever. While driving to school, he believes he sees the two seconds being added on his wristwatch. He receives two replies, neither of which acknowledge the two seconds.īyron’s school day starts quite normally. So concerned about the potential problems he writes letters to his Member of Parliament, the British Broadcasting Company, NASA and the Guinness Book of World Records. Our protagonist, Byron Hemmings, a serious eleven-year-old boy, is very worried about how this could affect all sorts of things, big things. The year is important because it is a leap year and “time was out of joint with the movement of the earth.” Two seconds have been added to the clock to correct this. It is 1972 in a small English country town. ![]()
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