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| The Uncertainty Principle |
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| Published by Vintage 1997, ISBN 0099740710 |
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| Helen Bartram, in Los Angeles to work on a
screenplay, just saw her daughter Laura. But that's impossible: Laura
died nine years ago. She must be mistaken. But she knows she isn't. |
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| Her husband Benny wouldn't be surprised. Benny
thinks that this is just one of an infinity of parallel universes, and
that synchronicities, ghosts, prophetic dreams, are rents in the curtain,
glimpses of other worlds. Things might have been different and, in some
other place, they are. Helen is sceptical. But what else can explain her
sighting? And now, when she most needs him, Benny isn't here. He's had
enough of this world and Helen has no access to any other. |
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| The Uncertainty Principle follows Helen's search
for her lost daughter across two continents and thirty years. Benny, the
unreconstructed Darwinist, becomes a guru at the further reach of New
Age physics. Their friend Colette, the beautiful film-star, must face
the sad realities of middle age. Patrick, the golden boy of their youth,
runs away: to London, to Brazil, to Los Angeles. From what? And meanwhile,
what happens to the children? |
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| All these lives, so well-ordered when viewed from outside,
zigzag in reality from chance to random chance. Everything seems so solid:
but when you come to test the ground, it shifts beneath your feet... Helen
finds that, in life as in physics, the Uncertainty Principle rules. |
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| `It is rare to come across a novel such as The Uncertainty
Principle... Ruth Brandon displays her versatility, exercises her dexterity
with craft, and demonstrates her wide-ranging intelligence'. - Ellen Beardsley,
Times Literary Supplement |
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