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What happens when an accident alters the course of your life

By Lora Grady

Updated November 29, 2013

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Like his mother, Diana, 11-year-old Byron Hemmings likes things to be just so. But when two extra seconds are added to the clock one morning in 1972, an accident occurs that will alter the course of his life. A heartbreaking story of what happens when innocent kids are forced to grow up too fast by Chatelaine Book Club author Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry).

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