Point of View

The chapters "An Ant," "Game Changer," "Sunbed," Clementinum," "The Goldilocks Zone," "Arthulysses," "New to Myself," and "Love" are written from a close third person point of view. At times this narrative voice possesses a free indirect capability, moving into the intimate thoughts and feelings of multiple characters in a chapter. At other times, this narrator remains close behind the consciousness of a single character. In "An Ant," for example, the narrative stance shifts back and forth between Eliza and Rachel's psyches. By way of contrast, in "Sunbed," the narrator adopts the feelings and thoughts of Elizabeth Pryce alone. The malleability of this point of view allows the narrator to inhabit each character's distinct vantage and experience. The narrator also links all of the characters together, and acts as a seemingly omniscient link between them.

The chapters "Ameising" and "Zeus," on the other hand, are written...