{"product_id":"year-two-kym-charles-9798192718322","title":"Year Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eYear Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stars have never been particularly reliable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this year, they've gone completely off the rails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome back to the strangest horoscope ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve zodiac signs are once again attempting to navigate another year of inexplicable predictions, bizarre cosmic events and increasingly questionable advice. Taurus has somehow become an X-factor. Pisces refuses to leave. Aquarius appears suspiciously competent. A goose has become involved in matters it absolutely shouldn't understand. And somewhere along the way, an echidna starts asking questions that nobody wants answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there's Keith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith was supposed to be the man who keeps everything running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe fixes things. He makes soup. He answers the telephone. He deals with cosmic bureaucracy. He occasionally saves reality, usually without being properly informed that this is what he's doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this year, Keith discovers something rather troubling: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe universe may not actually need him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs mysterious phones ring, strange doors open, empty soup cans appear from nowhere and a receptionist takes a perfectly reasonable holiday to Alpha Centauri, the signs begin to uncover a much larger mystery lurking beneath their seemingly nonsensical year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho-or what-is Mystery Sign Thirteen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does everyone keep mentioning Maintenance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is really behind the telephone?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is Orville, a devoted orangutan with a troubling tendency to consider Keith edible, suddenly being given increasingly important responsibilities?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what, exactly, happened to the other Keiths?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the year reaches its final weeks, the strange predictions have become something much bigger: a story about identity, memory, friendship, responsibility and the terrifying possibility of discovering that you don't have to be indispensable to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear Two\u003c\/b\u003e is a surreal, absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt journey through twelve months of cosmic nonsense, existential questions, soup, ducks, bureaucracy and one increasingly confused goose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stars may have a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith would really rather they didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to Year Two.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBring soup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kym Charles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798192718322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d","brand":"Kym Charles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50921711796479,"sku":"9798192718322","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/year-two-kym-charles-9798192718322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}