This Time Tomorrow
The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here
by Emma Straub
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Pub Date 9 Jun 2022 | Archive Date 20 Jun 2022
Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House | Michael Joseph
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Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from Emma Straub, THE ONE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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'
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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 . . .
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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.
'One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, bestselling author of TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' GILLIAN MCALLISTER, bestselling author of WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME
'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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780241453469 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 304 |
Links
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Featured Reviews
Sam W, Reviewer
Get ready to have your heart broken in the best possible way. There's more than a little bit of Richard Curtis's film About Time in this beautiful novel about love and longing.
Although there is time travel in this book, it's really a profound exploration of love.
Lara F, Reviewer
It’s only April but I’ll be very surprised if this isn’t my book of the year. I couldn’t be more the target audience as a 40 year old who experiences acute pangs of nostalgia and there’s some real wish fulfilment going on here but it’s also an incredibly raw and emotionally honest look at female friendships, ageing parents and a reckoning with how one has spent the first half of their life. It’s an incredibly easy read that deals with tough topics with deceptive ease and I couldn’t recommend it more highly. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Hannah B, Book Trade Professional
This BOOK. I didn't read the blurb before I started it, because I'll read anything written by Emma Straub, so I had no idea what was going to happen. So I was bounding through it, really enjoying things, and then the time travel aspect came at me as a complete surprise (yes, I could have worked it out from the title, I suppose). Time travel novels are not usually my jam, so I had a momentary internal sighing moment, but continued... and I am so glad I did. I found this book utterly compelling. So light and easy to read, stylish and approachable, and yet profound and affecting. Emma Straub treats big themes with a gentle, deft touch, and this was a moving and skilful exploration of grief, love, and longing that also kept me turning the pages until well after the bathwater had gone cold. Best book I've read in ages.
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