I have admired and read all her works, with their double time frames and sharp eye on the strange way we live now – an adventurous and original novelist.
It's a simple enough story, and one that lends itself naturally to the familiar double time-frame structure of countless mysteries in which present lives are rocked by the reverberations of a crime buried deep in their shared past.
**** Larkswood by Valerie Mendes (Orion, £7.99) Historical romance is tricky to get right, and although Mendes has a juicy enough story on her hands, with the double time-frame of grandfather Edward's summer of 1896, and his grand-daughter Louisa's narrative of 1939, there's a tendency towards explanation here, which robs the prose of much tension.
Net income more than doubled in that time frame, to $84 million.
Whereas the bone area density in the control group remained unchanged between days 5 and 10, the bone area density in the test group almost doubled within the same time frame (no statistical difference).
However, our time frame is double that reported elsewhere [15], as this study examined a different time period than this study did [15].
In addition, the time frame for doubling density has crept up, from 12 months to 18 months and most recently to 24 months.
The proportion of FM graduates choosing the emergency medicine option doubled over the 10 year time frame from 3.6%to7.8%8%.
Should the government use the ABCC to call a double dissolution it would need to recall parliament early for a budget in the first week of May, instead of the second Tuesday, in order to have enough time to call a double dissolution within the constitutionally permissible time frame.
In the ATL's most recent survey, by comparison, 25% of young recruits said they didn't think they would still be teaching in five years' time, although this figure more than doubled to 53% when the time frame was extended to 10 years.
American Airlines ' debt more than doubled to $8.3 billion in the same time frame.
