All Our Wrong Todays

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This brain-twisting, heart-flipping, wryly funny time-travel debut about the shifting sands of personal identity seems set to become one of those zeitgeisty novels that captures readers in the way Matt Haig’s The Humans has done.

Tom Barren is one of life’s drifters, and an underachieving disappointment to his pioneering scientist dad. He lives in a utopian future in which all material needs are met (and avocadoes never go mushy). It’s also a world in which his dad has invented the Chrono-Spatial Transport Apparatus (a time machine, no less) and, in an effort to give his floundering son something to do, he employs Tom to understudy Penelope, who's in training to be the first human to travel in the time machine.

Tom falls for his leading lady, but an unfortunate succession of events sees him transported back to 2016, which he regards as a primitive dystopia. There Tom encounters alternate versions of his parents, and his soul-mate, Penelope, and he’s faced with an excruciating decision: does he try to go back to his old utopian life, or does he stay and embrace the 2016 versions of his loved ones?

And so he embarks on an emotional trans-continental journey in order to figure out what to do, and who he is. Funny, thought-provoking and endlessly inventive - I loved it. ~ Joanne Owen

March 2017 Debut of the Month.

Reviewed by Joanne Owen
Joanne Owen’s lifelong love of reading and writing began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, and very much wished that witches (and Mrs Pepperpot) were real.
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About All Our Wrong Todays

So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have. That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have. But it never should've turned out like this.

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