Christopher Priest is an award winning British author of science fiction who is probably best known for the novels "Fugue for a Darkening Island" and "Inverted World".
Many of Christopher Priest's novels focus on the nature of memory, reality and narrative truth, often featuring "unreliable" narrators, a narrator who's credibility has been brought into doubt, casting the point of view of the story in a new light.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.