Kate Briggs tells the story of Helen and her baby Rose, two people who compose a day together. It is a day full of movements and improvisations, ordinary and unfamiliar rhythms, determined by stopping and starting again. The things and tasks of everyday life take on an epic quality in the light of the joint attention of mother and child. But then her morning rhythm is interrupted: a messenger brings a second-hand copy of Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones', and the intimate space Helen shares with her baby connects with Fielding's novel, giving rise to digressions into the form of the novel and themes such as care work, class and friendship. 'The Infinity of a Day' tells of the overwhelming first weeks of parenthood, of the closeness between mother and child, of care and lack of sleep, and explores the function of time in the novel in a unique way.