This audiobook took me for a trip I didn't expect. I have to admit I've decided to request it based on the cover and didn't even read the blurb so it was surprising to find out where story took me. Very unexpected but in a good way. I truly enjoyed it and narration was great too.

What would you do if you could go back in time and talk with a loved one you've lost? This is the question Faye must ask herself when she steps into an old space hopper box and finds herself transported back to the seventies, to a town in which her mother is still alive.

Faye is an interesting character, dealing with the early loss of her mother, her husband's changing career and the fear that her loved ones will think her mad if she mentions her time travel. She is relatable in the decisions she makes, however poor some of them are, and I like her sense of humour and innate kindness.

Something else I like about this novel is the way time travel is presented; not as an easy zip back and forth between past and present, but rather a lengthy fall with a painful ending that leaves Faye battered and bruised. And nothing about the process is easy, from the differing passages of time to the complications of meeting people in both timelines.

Finally, I adore Louis, Faye's blind best friend who is determined to stand by her through it all, with advice, humour, and a constant willingness to search the internet for crazy ideas.

Full of heartfelt sentiments and messages of hope, friendship and familial love, this is a great read (or listen - I recommend the audiobook too) for people of all ages and stages of life.

Oh to be able to hop through time and back into a photograph. Having lost a parent myself the idea of being able to travel back in time and be with them again is something I would trade the world for. Faye drew me in, instantly, with her love for her daughters and her husband. I felt her pain in the hollowness of a warm family moment when you realise the person you want most to share it with is missing too.

Faye lost her mother to an illness when she was very young and has since held on to treasured items that have rooted her in a time when she could remember her mother. From the picture of her in the space hopper box at Christmas to her mother's recipe book. Upon finding this old damaged box, Faye is drawn to care for it and keep it hidden from prying hand, those of her daughters keen to chop the box up. When a simple accident causes Faye to step into that box, her entire world changes and she is given the opportunity to revisit a place she left behind over 30 years ago.

Faye gets the chance to meet with her mother, have tea and connect, the only glitch is that she can never tell her who she really is, instead, she will have to form a friendship with her based around half-truths and lies. This story is heartbreaking and uplifting, I cried happy tears and tears of loss. I truly recommend you pick this one up!

Although time travel books are not my usual genre, this is the second one I have listened to in the past 3 months. This one is a delightfully quirky book about a mum who goes back to her childhood in the 1970s (when I was a teenager!) and meets her mum and younger self by using a spacehopper box as a means of time travel :-)

I loved the time travel descriptions, and how time travelling could be physically challenging! This isn't sci-fi, which I'm not keen on, but instead deals with time travel on a more emotional level. I laughed in parts, but at other times had a few tears in my eyes, and the ending was totally shocking and not at all what I expected! Bravo for that Ms Fisher! The book has a great cast of characters, especially Faye's blind friend, Louis, who was the best friend anyone could have, and it was interesting to see things from his perspective.

The narrator, Sophie Roberts, had exactly the right voice for this title, and I enjoyed her telling of the story.

I would like to thank the publishers and netgalley for an arc in exchange of an honest review.

I have a lot of feelings about this book.

Like a lot. Honestly I cried my eyes out at times due to the anxiety of things happening in the story and honestly not many books make me cry about mundane things.
I enjoyed how it helped me and maybe others deal with the death of a loved one, too.

I’ve seen criticism that the children aren’t well fleshed out but they don’t need to be. They’re small children without personalities of their own yet and it’s not that relevant, the story isn’t about them.

It’s about love and loss and spirituality. It’s far more spiritual than you’d expect and yet it makes a lot of sense. I love the relationship between Eddie and Faye and how realistic it is. He may be nice but he’s not perfect, nor is she. They have w real relationship.

I will say the friendship between Faye and her mother is a bit weird but I guess at the end they are only ever going to be friends rather than mother and daughter so it makes some sense. I’d like more of an ending resolution but still. I enjoyed this. I’ll ponder it a lot. I loved the inclusion of detail for the blind and how they also released an audiobook because a book that features a blind man so much surely needs that.
I like the distinctive voice of this book and how it feels unlike anything else I’ve read. It also gives us an understanding of how much life can be affected by others who we paid no mind to.

In all, this was a satisfying and heartwarming story though I wouldn’t read it again. It will definitely stay with me for a long time. I really enjoyed the twist.

I enjoyed this audio book and thought the narrator did a really good job

I liked the story about Faye going back in time, and able to see her mum Jeannie. I feel a lot of thought had been put into how it was going to happen, and I think it worked really well..
Liked the characters, did wonder how it was going to end
If you want something completely different this is for you.

Thank you netgalley, Helen Fisher and Simon and Schuster audio uk for allowing me to read and review this book.

I definitely had mixed feelings about this book. Parts I enjoyed, parts just weren’t for me. I enjoyed the time travel, I thought it was a really different way of carrying out such a thing, with the old forgotten about box etc. I also liked the fact that it did make me question what I would do in a similar situation. However I found the ending of this book felt fairly rushed and by that point I wasn’t entirely sure where the book was going and I felt I didn’t care enough about the characters or what happened to them. There is an increasing element of faith and questioning faith as the book progresses which I’m sure will be appealing to some readers.
The narration of this audiobook was clear and interesting with different voices easy to recognise

This is a wonderful book, which I loved and highly recommend. It is about a woman called Faye who misses her mum Jeanie and, through a space hopper box, she travels back in time to see her. It is an amazing book which is emotional and heartwarming. It pulled at my heartstrings and I loved the ending, which was unexpected!

I loved the narrator of this book, who had a really nice voice and did a great job.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Helen Fisher's debut novel "Space Hopper" contains themes including grief and loss, faith in different guises and the importance of family. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that there is time travel involved! Fisher beautifully illuminates the experience of a young child losing her mother through concepts such as young Faye missing Mum giving her a telling off. Older Faye fears becoming ill and ultimately leaving her own children. She cherishes her Mother's cookery book, replete with Mum's handwriting.

In terms of insight, I also particularly enjoyed the ways in which Fisher utilised her own professional knowledge to illustrate the differences between blind and sighted people, where Faye's friend Louis describes drawing a cat and a bus. Simple things we take for granted and make assumptions about. I enjoyed the allusions to "The Wizard of Oz" in the names of Faye's caregivers (Em and Henry) and the reference to Dorothy in Chapter 5.

Towards the beginning of the book there are some excellent references to retro toys. Major Morgan anyone? I found the ending a little perplexing although I really had no idea where it was going. Overall an enjoyable read and an accurate exploration of bereavement in childhood and loss of a parent.

When Faye accidentally discovers a way to travel between her current life with her husband and two girls and that of her childhood, she has no idea how this incredible encounter will shape the rest of her life. Faye can't resist getting to know more about the mother she hardly knew, despite the mounting risks to herself, her marriage and her future.
Despite a slow start, I enjoyed this story and there was enough of a twist tyo keep men wondering how the sdtyory might end.

I’m just really confused. I should be the perfect audience for this book- give me a book about grieving your mom and longing after one last meaningful conversation and I am all yours. But, I’ve gone back and read the last three chapters a few times and I just don’t get the book. There are so many parts that didn’t connect for me, mostly that although you are supposed to sympathise with Faye, you get no real sense of any of the other characters. Her daughters are just a fuzzy outline of children that play in a garden and suck a thumb. Her husband wants to be a man of the cloth but she doesn’t trust him and thinks him capable of huge cruelty to her.

Faye’s mother died when she was 8 years old, and it has always been a source of regret for Faye that she was unable to know her better. Out of nowhere she comes across a way to travel across time to spend time with her mother again. The only problem is this takes her away from her family in the now.

I have always been fascinated by time travel and have read a lot of books about it, including a book about books about time travel, lol. I wasn’t sure about this one in the beginning as it seemed a little bit chirpy and annoying, but it grew on me and actually posed some really interesting dilemmas both about the nature of time travel, but also about love, family and what we are willing to give up. Really recommend this one, love the ending. Very well narrated too!

This was a beautiful book, well told by the narrator, in which Fay returns to the 1970s to visit and befriend her now deceased mother. Time travel through the medals of a space hopper box is intriguing and yet fitting. In travelling back to see her mother, at first by accident and later on purpose, she learns more about her mother as a woman, and also more about herself, he needs and her devotion as a mother and wife.

The events unravel easily and the reader/listener is drawn into the dilemma of reasons and consequences of visiting the past, and possibly tampering with events, which may or may not change the present/ future.
The love between mother and daughter at both ages flows throughout the text and time periods.
A lovely story which encapsulates mother/ daughter love and loss.

I started listening to Space Hopper, intrigued by the premise. However, after listening to a few chapter, I just couldn't get into the story. Perhaps I didn't find the narrator quite right, but I think I might have appreciated the story more in written form. But I think that's more personal preference than anything else.

I loved this quirky tale and think it lent itself beautifully to the audiobook format. The book begins with quite dramatic music, perhaps a little too somber for the book’s mood. The narrator tells the story in a compassionate way. The story itself is great. Both moving and funny, stressful at times but warm too. I have to say I enjoy a touch of time travel in a novel; not too much. This hit the spot. The protagonist, Fay, goes back in time and meets her mother, who apparently died when Fay was just 8. She tries to get to know her Mum and the young version of herself but things aren’t always as they seem. Could she actually be making life worse for them, and maybe for her older self? A thoughtful tale with a beautiful ending that is both heartbreaking and happy at the same time.

Having read an excerpt of Space Hopper earlier in the year, I was eager to read the rest of the book and to see where the story would take me.

Faye's mother died when she was just a child but now she is able to spend time with her mother again. The mechanism that enables Faye to see her mother was thoroughly unique and not something that I would have ever anticipated.

This is not a book that easily fits into a particular genre so it is hard to say whether it is the kind of book that I would normally pick up. It have the feel of women's fiction or more general literary fiction but it doesn't completely fit within the boundaries of either. Another aspect of this book that I thought would make me less keen was the fact that Kaye is married to someone training to be a vicar; despite this Faye is agnostic. Both Faye's beliefs and her partner's are treated as being equally valid.

It took me a little while to become fully immersed within this book but once I had I was so in love with the writing and the characters and the message. Fisher has written a really beautiful book exploring grief and faith in a really cool way. And then the ending, just wow!

I really enjoyed this audiobook. Normally I don't like stories that are fantasies. However this one resonated because how amazing would it be it it was possible. I loved the authors way of directing some of the story to the reader/listener as if speaking to you direct. An easy listen with a great story

This is a book that just gets into your head and stays with you. It’s a gorgeous and charming read involving time travel and has pops of nostalgia all over the place which really evokes the senses!
The story begins with Faye who lost her mother as a child and yearns for the woman she never knew. One day she is in the attic and discovers the old Spacehopper box - the same box she was once photographed in as a child by her mother. She steps into the box and is transported back in time to the 1970’s where a string of remarkable events start to take place.
I am delighted to have been given the chance to review this fabulous audiobook which is beautifully narrated by Sophie Roberts and will be out in February 2021. Thankyou to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster Audio UK for my gifted copy