They revealed a sinister beginning to Daniel’s life, but Autumn ended with no clear explanation or exploration of his younger years. Autumn is peppered with Daniel’s dream sequences, some of which portrayed a young Daniel and the relationship he had with his younger sister Hannah, whose name he struggles to remember near the end. One of the main characters of Autumn was Daniel Gluck, the elderly man who lays on a bed in a care home, barely conscious, for most of the novel. We follow the lives of the Greenlaws from Brexit to lockdown, but that is only one plotline. They live with their mother in a house right next to their father’s, who lives with his much younger girlfriend. Sacha idolises Greta Thunberg and sees nothing but injustice in the world Robert, her genius younger brother, is obsessed with the life and work of Albert Einstein and whose unfiltered nature forces him into being an outcast.
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