Foxglove Summer timeline

Imported from tumblr.

The last one. AHAH! After much back-and-forthing I had decided to go with the June date because it’s one of the only solid dates we get in these books (the others being June 21, the last day in Rivers of London, and Christmas in Whispers Under Ground), plus Varvara’s only been at the Folly for two months. Except then we get two references to August in the book, including a slightly obscure but specific date (the Glorious Twelfth, August 12, the start of grouse-shooting season.) And the days of the week for 2013 match up correctly for August, but not June. (Although in Whispers Under Ground the days of the week matched for 2011, so 2012 appears to have not occurred at all in this universe.) MAKE UP YOUR MIND, AARONOVITCH. I CAN’T WITH YOU.

Edit, 20 August 2015: He did obligingly make up his mind (or at least mentioned it on Twitter) and by inference this book takes place in August 2013.

( The timeline )

Notes:

Another dense book after which Peter probably needs to sleep for a week. Apart from the whole June/August Thing the timeline checks out and there’s no missing days or anything.

He and Lesley are in contact for about a week; it’s been two to four months since she left, does that have any significance?

Nightingale tells Peter to wrap the loose ends up in a week, and he does it in five days! Good job, Peter. (Apart from the whole bargaining yourself away thing. DON’T DO THAT.)