One of the things a good book can do is give the reader an entirely new perspective. On an obvious level that can mean seeing the world through a particular character’s eyes, but there are other ways to give someone a new outlook.

The wonderful 100,000 Birthdays by Cynthia Rogerson will change your frame of reference just by reading. The American author is based in the Scottish Highlands and has a handful of award-winning novels under her belt as well as a highly original memoir. This latest book falls somewhere between those two stools – part-fictional memoir, part-philosophical musing and part-ode to the universe and all the life it contains.

If it sounds ambitious, 100,000 Birthdays certainly is, but it wears that ambition very lightly in a narrative as fun as it is profound. Th

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