Their parole is due and they expect the Warden to come and free them, but he doesn't appear and Aina takes matters into her own hands.

Metronome is a deeply eerie post-apocalpytic tale that follows two people trapped on a remote island, as a punishment for some unmentioned crime. This life-changing Audible Original features a powerful mix of one-on-one life-coaching sessions and a personal narrative with vital take-aways that you can start using immediately. And on her re-discovery of a hand-illustrated map, “the scale is all wrong, the distances too great. The Goldsboro exclusive edition of "Empire of the Damned" by Jay Kristoff will feature block sprayed.Isolation, bleakness and desolation, determination to persist despite an uncertain future, guilt for past sins, though maybe not the sin you’re punished for, partners in an inhospitable landscape with only each other, small pills and future parole to keep you safe and moving forward. Watson manipulates the storyline switching from past to present to unsettle the reader, unravelling the backstory as the protagonists begin to disrupt their monotone existence. These are dispensed via an automated “pill clock”, activated by the thumb print of the designated user, keeping the miscreants effectively tethered to their place of exile. Until the time nine years later that the cubby is inadvertently left unlocked and a box of matches is left out. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere (in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living)’.

I wonder if they’ve met, as there’s evidence of this in Watson’s multi-layered work; ‘fat, cold drops’ for rain, and “waves come as murmurs. On the day Aina and Whitney are supposed to be collected for parole, nobody turns up; communication with the Warden becomes non-existent. The author captures the pure desolation of the landscape, with the weather playing such a large part in the story. Just like the great Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale, this author doesn't inform the reader of how the world becomes what it is in this story. I thought it was interesting that their names weren’t immediately obvious as to who was who, just removed enough from perhaps a more familiar set of names.pieces of advice you received as you embarked on writing Metronome , and can you tell us a bit about how you signed with your agent, Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown?

The natural world sits firmly at the centre of Metronome – the wild, rugged beauty of the landscape reflects elements of the western isles of Scotland and the Yorkshire Moors and serves as a desolate backdrop to the intimate, discomfiting claustrophobia of the controlled life inside the croft.

But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes.