Sometimes, two seconds is all it takes. Usually followed by the pursuit of a loved one. Luckily not here. The two seconds, however, give Byron's life a new spin in the long run.
I liked the back and forth between Byron's and Jim's storylines, the former set in the 70s, the latter today-ish. The question who Jim is kept me on my toes, in an "am I right or not??" kind of way.
After a while, the Byron-storyline did start to drag on a bit. If that summer in the story was sluggish and too-hot, the narration definitely showed that. Only when autumn started, did the story also take up momentum again.
As before in "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry", the initial idea tricked me into thinking there was Magic Realism involved, which technically it wasn't, but it feels like there easily could have been.