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This Time Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
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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....
If you could go back, would you do things differently?
Alice Stern isn't ready to turn 40. 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 16th 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 16th 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.
Critic reviews
"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)
"A gorgeous and witty storyteller." (Liane Moriarty)
"A master of the domestic ensemble drama." (Time)
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- Jay024
- 30-12-22
This time tomorrow
I found myself zoning in and out of this book at times. Sometimes it made me laugh. Sometimes it made me listen intently. There seemed to be plot holes in it to me. I’m not keen on this type of time travel where you can make a change, come back to the present and not know what you do, who people are etc. for me it didn’t really go anywhere either.
I guess if you enjoyed midnight library you might like this. I didn’t I bailed on it. I did at least finish this book.
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- Lyll
- 16-07-22
One of the most beautiful story
Thank you for this great book which allows me to reflect on our life path and what we want in life.
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- MAC
- 03-07-22
Wise, witty, wonderful
I have tears writing this, so moved by this book, the ending especially. The premise is beyond the usual time travel trope; so full of wisdom and humour and insight. This book has the potential to heal many important family wounds.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-08-22
Worthwhile read overall
It was a good book that helped to put your own life in perspective and not take those around you for granted. Performance was great story was good.
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- Linda S
- 01-09-23
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
To say this book was over-written would be an understatement. It was depressing, repetitive, and I actually don’t know why I finished it except out of curiosity about whether or not it would get any better. The first half of the book was interesting but the exploration of the intense relationship between Alice and her father and his slow, agonisingly slow, death was horrific. I would not recommend listening to this book, except for the fact that it was well read by the narrator.
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