All The Time In The World

Novel — Literary Fiction

After the death of Roman Flynne, a family friend, Callum uncovers a digital archive left to him in his will: a meticulous record of Roman’s entire life, reconstructed in fragments. As Callum begins to explore it, he realizes that the Roman he thought he knew was only a partial figure. What emerges is not a story of accomplishment, but the record of a long, carefully contained love.

The novel moves between Callum’s present-day reckoning and Roman’s life beginning in the late 1980s, where a chance meeting with a woman named Elizabeth alters the course of both their futures. Their relationship unfolds slowly, shaped by restraint, miscommunication, and incompatible ideas of what intimacy demands. Devotion deepens even as certainty remains elusive. Love is expressed less through declaration than through patience, withdrawal, and quiet decisions that accumulate over time.

Woven throughout are excerpts from Roman’s own unpublished manuscript, written through a proxy voice - an attempt to articulate what he could not say aloud. As losses compound and misunderstandings harden into distance, the cost of emotional containment becomes increasingly clear.

All The Time In The World is interested in the forms love can take when presence is impossible, when devotion becomes indistinguishable from restraint, and when care requires choosing what cannot be kept. Rather than offering resolution, the novel considers what remains: the meaning that accrues slowly, and the inheritance left behind when explanation is no longer possible.