Making History

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What is more, Fry did this rather well and without resorting to a lot of stereotyping or using cliches. I was at a party in New York when that review came out, and Bret Easton Ellis came up to me and gave me a big hug and said: “I'm so happy that someone now has the worst review I've ever read. Every morning when I awoke and stared at the ceiling and listened to Jane’s gentle snoring it flooded my gut, a dark swell of recognition that here was another pissing day to be got through as me.

But tinkering with time lines is more dangerous than they can imagine, and nothing - past, present or future - will ever be the same again. I was also quite amused by the comparisons between "American" and English" expressions in the book, as a Canadian, is was 50/50 as to which one was more familiar to me.We have met with Leo and there’s been a couple of interesting plot twists – and then the novel prose comes to abrupt end and I was confronted with a film script.

And while he’s still a jerk at the end of the story, he has definitely changed and learned from his rather major mistakes. He realises that his plan was successful, history has changed, and for some reason his parents must have moved to America.Was all set to plunge into a profound debate; got a toe-dip into light drama-adventure waters instead. The book really didn't pick up steam until about halfway through -- that's a massive investment in weak development of ancillary characters and lengthy history essays. The storyline is a fairly classic one, What would happen if you travelled back in time and prevented Hitler from being born? However, it is later revealed that Leo was born Axil Bauer, the son of Dietrich Bauer, a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz who – when the Nazi defeat became certain – gave his son the identity of a Jewish doctor that he murdered. However, I knew enough about Stephen Fry to be intrigued as to how he would handle the subject and how he would tie up the various parallel story lines.