Wow! WOW! So basically the best book of next year is coming out 12th May 2022 and it is Gillian McAllisters latest read!

I have just whizzed through this in 2 days and have been bloody obsessed! OBSESSED!

I have been, as I know a lot of others have too, in a complete reading slump recently. That is until Wrong Place, Wrong Time came along and I could not stop reading and thinking about Jen, Todd & Kelly… taking them everywhere with me and talking the ears off my husband and son about them!

This is genius. You have to read it. You will love it and it will be a tv drama. The end! 😁

5🌟!

I am a huge Gillian McAllister fan, so when I was invited to read an advance copy of her new novel, I didn't even read the blurb. I was IN. The novels I've read have been consistently well written, wonderfully twisty and well paced thrillers, and while Wrong Place, Wrong Time initially followed that same pattern, I was blindsided by an early Sliding-Doors-style twist which subsequently took the story careening off on a supernatural slant.

Let me say this: books that mix genres, are not generally my favourite. And my least favourite 'genre mash is that of the thriller with the supernatural. I just don't like it. The thing that generally gets my heart racing with a thriller is when the plot of novel feels so plausible that I can actually imagining it happening to me. So while I love horror and sci-fi, crossing them with thrillers is not really for me, as it then becomes firmly something in the realms of fiction and just doesn't hook me in the same way.

HOWEVER. I persisted with this one because I love the author's previous novels and I was enjoying the story, And I am SO glad I did. This is an original and gripping novel that I didn't want to put down (except for that one fleeting moment where the book first veered off in an unexpected direction). I loved the characters, the twists were deft and unpredictable, and the coupling of genres worked beautifully (proving that there is an exception to every rule). Cannot recommend this one highly enough, and it would not surprise me in the slightest to see this get picked up as a Netflix series or movie. Will be foisting copies on all of my reader friends once this is published - an easy five stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher, who granted me a free ARC copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Well thank you very much Gillian McAllister! It's a few days before Christmas and I should be doing last-minute preparations, but I started reading Wrong Place Wrong Time, and just couldn't stop reading.
I have loved all the author's previous books, but I think this is the best yet. I love a time-travel novel, but this one is so clever. As usual the story is completely compelling (hence the complete lack of Christmas preparation in my house) and well-written, with strong and very believable characters. I will be recommending this book to all my friends.

Wrong Place , Wrong Time by Gillian Mc Allister

It's every parent's nightmare.
Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger.
You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost.
That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake . . .
. . . and it is yesterday.
Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it.
Wow ! This is a book that suspends all logic , chucks it in a pile and throws it around a bit , and your left to try and stick the pieces back together again . I loved it . Great story line , fab plot , and believable characters .

Oh my GOODNESS. I can’t quite believe I was invited to read an early copy of this and well, it most definitely did not disappoint. I read it in less than 3 hours, and in fitting with the plot, wish I could go back in time and keep re-reading. Wow, wow, wow. I already had the book on pre order and will still be purchasing it when it is released. The plot twists kept on coming and I just could not recommend this book enough. 100 stars! ⭐️ Gillian McAllister just keeps getting better and better and I cannot wait for her next novel.

First of all I'm a huge fan of Gillian McAllister's books. After reading Anything You Do Say I binged on all her others, very few authors compare for novels grounded in real life with believable emotionally involving characters.

Wrong Time, Wrong Place starts with a bang, a mother (Jen) witnesses her son (Todd) involved in a violent crime, for which he is immediately arrested. Jen wakes up the next day to find she's in yesterday, the day before the crime.

Her tomorrow will be her yesterday as she is set on a path to try and see where things went wrong in order to try and protect her son and possibly change the present. With the days slipping backwards and Jen's investigation growing it is a fairly whacky premise.

I'm happy to admit I found parts of it a little confusing, I haven't seen the Russian Doll series referred to in the author's notes, but once I got into a Life On Mars mindset I found the flow.

The character writing is excellent as always, especially in the later parts.

Overall, I think it works, and the book finishes very strongly and it does all come together and is explained satisfyingly in the end.


Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Michael Joseph UK

Gillian McAllister has done it again! Read in less than a day… sleep? What’s that?!

This book throws up so many questions. How can you manage everything still to come when you already know about it AND balance it with everything that’s been before. Jen does. She’s living every parents nightmare, over and over again.

Never have I stopped so many times and stared at a book in disbelief until now. Even with Gillian’s previous publications. Every twist and revelation is shocking, unpredictable, mind-bending.

I was instantly challenged, in the first few pages, to think about what I would do. And that right there is what Gillian is fast becoming well known and celebrated for. She’s the queen of the moral dilemma. I’ve said it before. Every single book challenges you to explore, “What on earth would I do?” And by the end of it? You still won’t know.

You’ll read this Groundhog Day style Thriller forwards and then by the end you’ll want to read it backwards to piece it all together all over again. There’s that twist, then that one, and another one… I never saw them coming!

Gillian’s law background shines through again, just enough to make you realise you’re reading a very well researched book. Equally, parts of the book that haven’t intersected with Gillian’s real life are still incredibly strong and factual. At least, there are parts you HOPE haven’t intersected! There’s no faltering though, her writing style is smooth, unique, perfectly finished. This books is all of the best parts of Gillian’s previous books and more. Writing is an Art and Gillian is a true master of her craft.

Each time I read a new Gillian McAllister book, I think it’s not going to come close to the previous one and each time I am pleased to say it does! Unique, nail biting, clever and heart warming all rolled into one belter of a book! When Jen waits up for her son to come home from a night out, she witnesses something horrific which results in her son being arrested. But the next morning she finds herself waking up the day before - can she stop the events that led up to that day? And if she can will this effect the future! I could not put this down, reading it as I put in laundry, cooked food, took my son to football and now I am left feeling slightly empty because it is finished! Absolutely outstanding book!!

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Claustrophobic read. Best of 2022.
Gillian McAllister is back with this awesome thriller where culprit is a son and his parents have to fight for him in order to make him free from the charge of murder. He killed a stranger but why? What was his motive? How far the parents can go to protect their son? It was an awesome thriller. I was hooked
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Michael Joseph UK for giving me an advance copy.