On New Year's Eve 1982, Oona Lockhart turns nineteen and makes a wish at midnight, only to find that she has jumped forward to her fifty-first year. From then on, each New Year's she lives in a different age, in a random order, but her mind stays that of the age she was when the year began. She must rely on her younger and older selves to leave notes and advice, and she tries to hold on to a relationship with her boyfriend Jonathan and her mother. Margarita Montimore uses the structure to ask what it means to live a life out of sequence, and how much of it we can control.
It suits readers who like time-slip fiction with a human heart.
Balanced in tone; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
