Time Travel for Beginners

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'Time Travel for Beginners is GORGEOUS'-Marian Keyes On a bustling road in Sydney lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell of freshly brewed coffee, a selection of baked goods . . . and the question, Where in time do you wish to go? The guidelines are simple: you can go whenever you wish into the past, and there's no fear of altering the present. Have tea with Jane Austen, scream at a Beatles concert, witness the Olympics in ancient Greece. Perhaps a more personal trip? Visit your long-lost grandmother, recapture the heady days of your youth, return to the idyllic time when your teen was a babbling baby-or watch yourself make the one decision that changed everything. Is it a hoax? And if it's real, what's the catch? When single mother Anna is offered a job at the agency, she glimpses the possibility of happiness. Meanwhile, Teddy's a customer hoping to untangle his recently imploded marriage. And Jade, who has a deeply buried secret, despises the agency for offering false hope. In Jaclyn Moriarty's incandescent novel, Anna, Teddy and Jade leap headlong into time, hurtling on a crash course towards one another. At turns entertaining and illuminating, Time Travel for Beginners explores the moments, big and small, that shape our destiny. 'A joyfully sad, quietly clever and loudly delightful time-travel novel. Time Travel for Beginners only gets more delicious with every read.'-Justine Larbalestier and New York

• Binding: Hardcover

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