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This Mortal Boy

Fiona Kidman

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Val McDermid loved it
It's an amazing novel, this. It's compelling. It's a novelization of a real event: the second last hanging in New Zealand.

on fivebooks.com · 4 Dec 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.