| The
Many Lives of
Clare Beckett
Clare Beckett
is an accountant -
thirty-three,
unmarried and
unbalanced.
At least, she
thinks she
is. But
recently, there's
been a blur around
the solid edges of
her life.
Memories sometimes
seem more solid
than her
present.
Friends and lovers
seem to shift
their
significance.
Time has ceased to
be linear ...
Haunted by
unsuccessful
affairs, guilt
over the death of
her young brother,
and a general
sense of having
missed out on
something vital
along the
way. Clare
suffers a
breakdown.
During her slow
recovery she
becomes obsessed
with the idea that
there are many
other Clare
Becketts, each
living out a life
determined by a
crux decision from
her 'real-world'
life. One
Clare is a
successful
mathematician
living in New
York; one has been
married and
divorced; another
is a dream-traveller
under scientific
study; yet another
is caught in a
limbo of mental
illness.
Is she going
mad? Or do
we all inhabit a
universe in which
our other selves
lead elaborate
separate lives? |
