Emily has really outdone herself with this book, it is simply amazing. I had to take a couple of days before writing this review to just think about it. The power of the writing and ideas in this story will stay with me.

Starting in the year 1912 through to 2401, the reader follows a variety of different people’s experience of an anomaly in time and the time traveller from the future who is sent back to investigate it. The story jumps back and forth between time zones but it is done in a way that isn’t confusing at all and very easy to keep track of where you are.

I really don’t want to say too much as this is the sort of book that each individual will take away something different with them when they finish. There are many themes running throughout: love, family, experience, pandemics, loneliness, consequences, choices, hope, despair, and well, just what it is to be human, which doesn’t change whether you live on Earth or a moon colony! While there are nods to both of her previous books, Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, be warned that it does give away a bit of what happened in The Glass Hotel which may spoil that story for you if you haven’t read it.

This is definitely one of those special books that I will keep on my shelves to go back to and reread.