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 Stern,an eccentric novelist - 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: some time back with Leonard...
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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9781405946124Number of pages: 320Weight: 220 gDimensions: 194 x 128 x 24 mm
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'I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom'- Jodi Picoult
'This Time Tomorrow is a beautifully made,elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight-then breaks your heart with its bittersweet,lingering song'- Michael Chabon
'If I could time travel,I'd go back just far enough to start Emma Straub's beautiful novel This Time Tomorrow again for the first time. The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more'- Ann Patchett
'Time travel is a popular trope in fiction,and Straub deploys it brilliantly in her effervescent new novel... Straub is an expert chronicler of social mores and the inner lives of her (mostly) bourgeois characters,and here she delivers a surefire bestseller'- Oprah Daily
'The always delightful,deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30... It's Straub,so you know it's going to be funny,touching,and filled with family drama'- Glamour
'With her celebrated humour,insight,and heart,beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes,and a different kind of love story'- Biblio
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