This Time Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow
On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible . She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who raised her, is ailing and out of reach. How did they get here so fast? Did she take too much for granted along the way? When Alice wakes up the next morning somehow back in 1996, it isn't her sixteen-year-old body that is the biggest shock, or the possibility of romance with her adolescent crush. It's her dad: the vital, charming, forty-nine-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, is there anything that she should do differently this time around? What would she change, given the chance?
This Time Tomorrow
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “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 “One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love."—Gabrielle Zevin “The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."—Emily Henry What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, 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. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
This Time Tomorrow
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 'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time 'One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time
