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Year Month Day Event Source Book timelines; other approximations. 1973 Feb. Late Leda Strike has sex with Troubled Blood. Jonny Rokeby in a NYC party, with witnesses 1974 Nov. 23 Cormoran Blue Strike born 1975 Nov. 23 1st birthday 1976 Spring-summer? Lucy Fantoni born. Lucy and Strike are usually listed as See Lucy’s thirtieth birthday being 2 years apart, though, when picture, 2006, for evidence Lucy’s Leda died, Lucy was said to be 19, birthday is most likely in the earlier and Strike “a student of 20;” range of these dates, making her meaning they were not two full and CBS closer to 18 months apart years apart in age. This is than 2 years. contradicted by the TB reference Strike’s statement that Leda died to Lucy as “newborn” when Strike “mid-way through his second year” is 4, and they are left in St. Mawes makes it likely Lucy had a spring for the first time. birthday, since Lucy was already 19 at the time of Leda’s death. However, if Lucy was born before May, she and Strike would be closer to 1 year apart in age rather than 2. The later in the spring Lucy’s birth is, the closer Leda comes to dying not “mid-way” but “near the end of “ Strike’s second year at Oxford. 1976 Nov. 23 2nd birthday 1977 Nov. 23 3rd birthday 1978 Nov. 23 4th birthday 1979 Jan Strike and Lucy abandoned Troubled Blood Rokeby accepted paternity and with Ted and Joan for first begun paying child support before time; Strike enrolled in Strike turned 5, as a result of a primary school in St. blood typing or HLA test, which Mawes. was very new technology. DNA 1979 Feb- Leda removes Strike from Troubled Blood tests were not available at this March school after 6 weeks; takes time. The paternity test also broke him and Lucy back to up Rokeby’s second marriage, London. which ended in 1979. Could Leda 1979 Nov. 23 5th birthday: consulting lawyers, accessing new technology be part of the reason she left her children at St. Mawes? Or had she just started getting the big bucks from Rokeby, and decided to take off to spend it on herself rather than her children? 1980 Nov. 23 6th birthday 1981 Nov. 23 7th birthday 1982 Jan to Strike meets Rokeby for the Nothing was said about meeting November? first time. happening near Christmas, meaning it likely did not happen in December after CBS turned 7. 1982 Nov. 23 8th birthday Lucy and Strike went to commune Probable time for the stay at the 1982 Dec. Norfolk commune? when they were 6 and 8 Norfolk commune, the “worst 1983 Jan. respectively (CC). experience” of Strike’s childhood. 1983 Feb. early Strike starts new private CC: Cormoran was friends with school in London; becomes Charlie for about 2 months before friends with Charlie Charlie’s death on Easter Sunday. Bristow. 1983 Apr. 3 Charlie Bristow dies in Cuckoo’s Calling quarry. 1983 Spring to Likely range of 2-month Lucy was said to be 7 when they It is also possible the Norfolk Winter? “Homeschooling” with Leda left Brixton, making Cormoran 8 ½ commune stay happened early in and her boyfriend Shumba, to 9 years old. this interval, but it must have ended when Ted and Joan begun before Lucy’s 7th birthday in forcibly removed them Al is said to be 9 years younger spring 1983, leaving not much time from squat in Brixton, than Strike. after Charlie Bristow’s death in early April. The “dank” dormitory This Is the year Al Rokeby also makes it less likely they were was born. there in warm weather. 1983 Nov. 23 9th birthday 1983- Summer 83- Possible range for 2-month If the Norfolk Commune stay was 1984 Spring 84 period of “homeschooling” after Charlie Bristow’s death, in Brixton squat with Leda rather than before, this is the and Shumba. range of the Brixton stay with Shumba, and Ted and Joan’s rescue. Move to Brixton was at least 2 months before Lucy’s 8th birthday in 1984, as Lucy was 7 when they returned to St. Mawes. 1984 Nov. 23 10th birthday 1985 Nov. 23 11th birthday 1986 Nov. 23 12th birthday Approximate time Rokeby’s 1987 Nov. 23 13th birthday Restricted funds meant lawyers restricted child support “extravagant treats” stopped for payments. “teenage” Strike; money had been accumulating for “6-7 years” when Strike got into Oxford. 1988 Nov. 23 14th birthday 1989 Nov. 23 15th birthday 1990 Nov. 23 16th birthday . When Strike is 16: Leda begins 1991 Sep. 1 Strike begins lower 6th relationship with Whittaker; Lucy form. leaves permanently to live with Ted and Joan after Whittaker’s sexual taunting, and Shanker joins the family. Strike is also briefly “dumped” back in St. Mawes when he is 16, probably in summer, as there is no mention of his A-level schooling being interrupted. He is in comprehensive school with Nick Herbert by age 17. 1991 Nov. 23 17th birthday 1992 May Leda becomes pregnant by Whittaker, marries him soon after. 1992 August Visits Australia with Dave Polworth for Dave’s 18th birthday. Dave attacked by shark on August 17th, his actual birthday. 1992 Sep. 1 Strike begins upper 6th form 1992 Nov. 23 18th birthday: Joint party Nick and Ilsa begin dating with Nick Herbert at pub; Whittaker sings; family and Ilsa from Cornwall attend; Leda is 6 months pregnant. 1992 Dec. Switch Levay Bloom If SLBW went home with his Whittaker born, parents, Strike would have lived presumably about 2 with him for about 9 months, until months prematurely. leaving for Oxford. He presumably 1993 Spring After Ted and Joan notify would have been as protective of Rokeby that Strike has been his younger brother as he was of admitted to Oxford , Strike his mother, which makes it odd he meets Rokeby for 2nd time. would lose contact with the child Rejects the money that had after Leda’s death. been accumulating for “6-7 Alternatively, authorities could years.” have deemed the squat unsuitable for a child, especially a premature infant, and placed SLBW with either Ted and Joan or the Whittaker great-grandparents, probably the latter, since it was they who adopted him after Leda’s death. 1993 Sep. Strike begins Oxford Nick and Ilsa break up to attend separate universities. 1993 Nov. 23 19th birthday Strike meets and begins dating Charlotte at age 19, during first year at Oxford. 1994 Sep Starts 2nd year at Oxford. 1994 Nov. 23 20th birthday 1994- Late winter to Leda Strike dies. Time estimated, but “mid-way Did Lucy take a gap year? She 1995 spring. through Strike’s 2nd year.” Strike supposedly “went off to university” was supposed to be 20, and Lucy the fall after her mother died, but 19, at the time of her death. If this suggests she took a year Leda died in 1994, per her TV between finishing secondary headstone, it would mean Strike school and starting uni. was barely 20, which does not fit with Lucy being 19. 1995 Probably spring Whittaker charged with This assumes at least a few months to summer murder; Strike testifies at to charge and try Whittaker trial. Leaves Oxford and joins army. 1995 Nov. 23 21st birthday 1996 Nov. 23 22nd birthday 1997 ??? Donald Laing’s arrest? It is If Strike “got him life” but he was The best way to clean up the mess more likely that the boxing “out in 10” and “on the loose since that is Donald Laing’s timeline is to match happened this year. 2007”, then this would be the time flip the “years ago” times for the Strike would have had 2 frame of his arrest and boxing match and the arrest. This years to become an MP in imprisonment. Note, however, puts the boxing match in 1997 or army. that this has Strike 1998, and Laing’s arrest 3 years This time frame is also 14 underestimating Laing’s son’s age later in summer 2000 or 2001. He years before CoE, by 3-4 years. It is also said was sent to prison, released in consistent with Laing’s elsewhere that Laing was 2007 and killed his first victim in given age at the match (20) sentenced to 16 years, not life, and 2009. and in CoE (34). served 10. Even so, 1997 is too early for him to be jailed, assuming If we are looking for a date 14 he got out in 2007 (which fits with years before CoE, 1997 works best. him returning to Melrose “4-5 years ago” in 2011). This would push the boxing match, which was supposed to happen 3 years before the arrest, to 1994, before Strike was in the Army. 1997 Nov. 23 23rd birthday Nick and Ilsa marry in “mid-20’s” 1998 ??? If Laing was arrested in summer with Strike as best man. They likely 2001, the boxing match would got back together at some major likely have happened in 1998. life event of their mutual friend 1998 Nov. 23 24th birthday Strike. Perhaps at the medal 1999 Nov. 23 25th birthday presentation ceremony? 2000 May-July? Al Rokeby possible The Silkworm. This date assumes graduation from Swiss he graduated at age 17. boarding school. Strike sees picture with Rokeby in paper while stationed in Afghanistan. 2000 June - Strike’s first encounter with If boxing match with Laing September? Laing, in boxing ring?? happened “11 years ago” in 2011, More likely, Laing was it would be this year.
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