Ruth Belville - The Greenwich Time Lady

Like a telescope from the Observatory, its focus is fine but its range is wide. Rooney has a gift for making difficult concepts easily graspable, and a riveting way of setting scenes, describing characters and relating anecdotes. --Nicolette Jones, Telegraph

Rooney tells a story that Dickens would have loved, lively with the oddity of human characters making a living from time, laced with arcane lore of London and loaded with the history of the Royal Observatory and GMT. --Ian Finlayson, The Times

At a terse 192 pages, The Greenwich Time Lady carries no dead weight . . . Yet Rooney s prose is not skimpy or spare; rather, it breathes life into the characters and events that form this unusual story. --Emily F. Popek, Popmatters, www.popmatters.com