This Time Tomorrow: The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here

This Time Tomorrow: The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here

Taschenbuch
2.52

Durch das Verwenden dieser Links unterstützt du READO. Wir erhalten eine Vermittlungsprovision, ohne dass dir zusätzliche Kosten entstehen.

Beschreibung

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and anticipation, and how we must cherish what we have while there is still time . . .

'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY
'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE
'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD
'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT
'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i
'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'
________

If you could go back, would you do things differently?

Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again.

When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . .

Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses.

But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most . . .
________

With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child.

'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO

'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST

'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS

'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE

'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here

'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty

'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time
Haupt-Genre
N/A
Sub-Genre
N/A
Format
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
320
Preis
9.49 €

Beiträge

2
Alle
3

When I read the premise to this one, I immediately thought „new fave!“. Sadly, it wasn’t. I liked it well enough, but it had the potential to be SO MUCH MORE. It took me almost a year to finish it. Loved the father-daughter relationship in this, and I’m a sucker for time travel. I just wish it had grabbed and given me more.

2

The idea behind this story was great. I was always fascinated by time travel. The sheer idea of going back in time to when we were teenagers -what we could do! What we could change! However, the story was so anticlimactic. Nothing exciting happened. There was nothing thrilling or gripping about this story (in my opinion) and honestly, the author's style of storytelling wasn't my cup of tea either...

Beitrag erstellen