time scheme

The Tree Time scheme is being run by Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust, in partnership with the council and Woodland Trust Scotland.

But “Jack” also presents a number of problems — to new readers who may not pick up the oblique references to Jack’s troubled youth, and to faithful readers who may find the scrambled time scheme of his relationship with Della frustratingly difficult to follow.

And there’s one unfortunate gaffe in the book’s time scheme: Danny has vivid memories of the devastating 2004 tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, but the final page of the novel places all its action in 2002.

He talks about the curious double time scheme of a pop star’s life – those crammed 18-hour days and then the sudden empty off-time when Styles might find himself walking miles across London to buy a book, afterwards congratulating himself: “Well, that’s an hour filled.”

And, for period dramas not working to a pre-ordained time scheme, the possibilities for sequels are potentially endless.