Time Travel - the ability to change past events. Emma Straub tackles time this phenomenon in her latest release - This Time Tomorrow.
On the eve of protagonist Alice's 40th birthday - she is transported back to the late 1990's to the eve of her 16th birthday. Alice left her father with ill health behind in hopspital when she went back to her childhood, can she use the knowledge from her 40 year old self to make the changes she needs to - to build a stronger relationship with her father when she is 16?
It's a love story which centres on the love between father and daughter - it's emotional, raw, honest and makes you question your own younger self life decisions.

This was a good read but a little slow in places for me. Loved the storyline and the characters but it just didn't have the depth for me in places. Shame as there are some top reviews for this but not my favourite time travel read but still worth reading.

Thank you Netgalley.

This was a brilliant read! After an initial slow start I found myself swept up in Alice's story and wanted to see what would happen next. I could understand her need to revisit her past, especially when it held such fond memories for her, there are quite a few days I wish I could revisit to see those loved ones.

The time travel element shows the consequences of our actions. Something so small that we don't thin can make a difference can have a huge impact and this is perfectly executed in the story. It's a tale of love between a father and his daughter and made me well up on more than one occasion.

This Time Tomorrow has forty year old Alice as its protagonist. She doesn't feel as if she has done much with her life, and regrets not having her life sorted in the way she envisaged it being. She misses her father - the eccentric novelist who wrote a celebrated novel about time travel - and with him asleep in a hospital bed Alice is not sure if she will ever get the chance to speak with him again. Context is everything, and at the heart of the novel is Alice's changing relationship with her father. So it is not really surprising when events take place that result in Alice travelling back in time to the morning of her sixteenth birthday.
Her initial return to the past is explored in great detail, and it was fascinating to see Alice explore the various strands of her life and to make little changes to see how this might impact on her life in the present. However, we soon learn that Alice will have the ability to return to this day when she chooses - as long as the initial conditions are met - and this brings its own problems.
As Alice tinkers with the details of her life/lives, she has to work out which elements are the things she wants and which she would be happy to lose. While it might have been interesting to see these attempts in more detail, the number of times Alice clearly tried this was emphasised by the scant details given about each occasion. Her inability to alter the one thing that she clearly wanted to change was poignant, and led to an emotional resolution.
This Time Tomorrow is certainly a book that I would recommend to others, though I think it will be more satisfying to readers who have already had to start thinking about some of the issues raised within its pages.

I loved this funny and moving book which I could really see as a film or series. Loveable characters and a great message. Fully recommend

Excellent read.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me access this book in exchange for my honest feedback.

Think it was the case of not being the right time for me for this title. I struggled with it as the start was so sad and I didn’t want to pick it up again unfortunately

Alice is nearly 40 and feels like her life is going no where, working at the school she went too as a teenager, no family and a small apartment, on Alice’s 40th birthday she passes out in the shed of her childhood home and wakes up on the morning of her 16th birthday, can Alice re do her life and change her future. A good book with interesting ideas.

This was a great read - super easy and flowed so nicely. I raced through it which is always a good sign!

This was a bit of a weird storyline, but I did quite enjoy it!

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

This Time Tomorrow is a book about what ifs and taking another path through life. Alice is turning forty and a carer for her dad. She finds herself taken back to her sixteenth birthday and relives her relationship with her father from an adult's viewpoint, asking questions she'd never have thought of before. I liked the relationship between the two of them, and the characters felt real as did the emotional connection.

Thanks for the chance to read it

Time travel with heart, a family story.

With shades of 'About Time' (Bill Nighy), this time travel story is self-referential, nostalgic for the 1980s, a love letter to our teenage selves, and a sad story about growing up and old and watching those we love do the same.

It's the story of a woman who hasn't had the life she might have wanted, Alice works in the school she herself attended, interviewing potential new families, going home to her apartment, seeing her best friend occasionally between Sam's childcare commitments, and visiting her author father in the hospital where he's sick after a lifetime of cigarettes and poor habits. As she turns 40, she happens to see her teenage crush, interviewing with his wife and son for a place at her school, and in the midst of this mid-life turmoil... she wakes up in her childhood bedroom, in her teenage body, on her 16th birthday.

Not only does Alice find she has the chance to live the day again, but that it might just have an affect on her 'real' life... and she might want to talk to her father about it all... her father who writes books for children about time travel.

It's smart. It doesn't try to replicate any particular time travel story before it (and in fact manages a great scene with writers all discussing time travel theories in literature), it feels almost possible (outside of the 'suspend your disbelief' nature of the entire narrative). I liked how Alice was both the 40 year old and 16 year old simulataneously, this had to work carefully around seeing a teenage crush again whilst in reality being 40.

And I loved Alice and Sam's relationship, spanning the decades, being so trusting and intimate. Almost as much as I fell for her relationship with her father Leonard. The ultimate hippy/relaxed parent. Her adoration was eye-glisteningly real.

I also loved the conclusions Alice and the book both came to, nothing that make take you by surprise, but a gradual unfolding of events that draws towards inevitability maybe, but sadly. Sweetly.

Would you change your past if you could? You might answer differently after some thought. It is always worth assessing your life at 40 (writes the 41-year-old), and a book that manages to reference My So Called Life and Ferris Bueller is not a bad way to help you do that.

With thanks to Netgalley for providing an advance reading copy.

I’m a huge Emma Straub fan but had started to find her novels a bit samey so it was great how different this one is. Although that said, it has the same great emotionally intelligent writing ànd emphasis on family dynamics. I did find the 40 year old strand a lot deeper and more relatable and was always keen to get back to that. Some important messages here and a fascinating reflection on what makes us and our relationships.

I loved this, and totally not what I expected at all. I'm not keen on the time travel trope, but this wasn't about that at all; it was more about relationships. Loved the Alice and her Dad, as well as Alice and Sam.

The 90s throwback nostalgia was fantastic, as was the fact that this book is essentially a love letter to New York.

A quick and easy read that I found myself picking up after a long day to unwind. The characters are beautifully written and I came to love them within the first few pages and was rooting for them all the way to the end. At times I wanted to stop reading because I just wanted the experience to go on for longer.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I received an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author.
An easy enjoyable read, would recommend it for a holiday. Not loads of substance though and a bit of unrealised potential. Would still recommend though, I liked the characters. 3.5 stars.

Not for me.
Looked forward to reading this after all the positive reviews. I got half way through the novel and gave up. There have been a lot of time travel books, none to beat the Time Travelers' wife which was gripping, surprising and fascinating. This Time Tomorrow was quite plodding and to me not inspiring.
Thank you Emma and NetGalley for this opportunity

I do enjoy a bit of time travel and this was a delight to read! The emotional underpinning of the story meant it didn't come across as too far fetched and it was really quite thought provoking in terms of making the most of our time and the effect of the past on our futures. Immediately bought it for my bookshop and highly recommend it to my customers.

A warm and sincere exploration of human relationships with a bit of time travelling thrown in for good measure.

Alice's beloved Dad, Leonard lies dying in a hospital bed.

Alice has just turned 40, and a little drunk and restless, she returns to her childhood home. When she wakes the next day, she is back in her sixteen year old body.

When she realises she can return again and again, she keeps trying to change circumstances to save her Dad. But eventually she understands that some fates cannot be changed. And instead she learns to cherish the time she is privileged to have with her Dad every time she returns.

Also, feeling lost in her own life, she understands that the smallest change just might alter the course of her future in a direction she never could have foreseen.

A quick read, written really well with a lovely cozy, warm feel.

This story of time travel hooked my interest in a way that surprised me, maybe it was the believable characters, maybe it was the well described New York in the different eras, maybe it was just the sheer confusion!
“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending
on where you ended it.” Very wise, insightful and beautifully told. I loved it.