"A once famous actress finds herself in a middle-aged muddle and finds the answers she’s seeking at an extraordinary coffee shop."
A magical coffee shop offers its patrons both hot drinks and wish fulfillment, including time travel. The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick is a magical mystery tour examining the big questions of what’s important in life tinged with nostalgia and love.
Fading actress Greta Perks finds herself at a crossroads. Her biggest professional success, her appearances in a series of Maple Gold Coffee commercials, happened decades before and now she struggles to find more acting work. Meanwhile, her husband Jim, who played her suitor and then her husband in the same commercials, wants a trial separation. Their daughter Lottie, who also starred in the commercials as a child, is going through a fractious teenage phase with lots of slamming doors and awkward exchanges.
Greta is sad and frustrated, and a chance to time travel to Mapleville, the fictional town of the Maple Gold commercials, is an offer too good to refuse. Will living in a perfect town with a perfect family and a perfect career help her figure out her life? Is a town where no woman wears jeans a utopia? Is perfection overrated?
A fan of the best-selling Japanese novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold will find things to admire here too. The novel also has twinges of Alice in Wonderland, as well as the films Pleasantville and It’s a Wonderful Life.
This is a feel-good novel with a potent reminder of what’s important in life.
| Primary Genre | Romance / Relationship Stories |
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Welcome to the Time Hop Coffee Shop, where wishes can come true . . .
Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold coffee commercials, the quintessential TV wife and mom. Now, fame has faded, her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter has become distant, and Greta's once-glittering career feels like a distant memory.
So when Greta stumbles upon a mysterious coffee shop, serving a magical brew, she wishes for the perfect life in those past Maple Gold commercials. Next thing she knows, Greta wakes in the idyllic, make-believe town of Mapleville, where the sun always shines and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and second chances fill the air. Given the opportunity to live the life she dreamed, Greta is determined to rewrite her own script. But can life ever be like a coffee commercial? And what will happen when Greta has to choose - between perfection and real life, with no turning back?
The Time Hop Coffee Shop features in the following genres: Feel-Good Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Speculative fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Fiction: narrative themes, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
The Time Hop Coffee Shop is available in Paperback
The Time Hop Coffee Shop was written by Phaedra Patrick and published by Aria an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Time Hop Coffee Shop has 311 pages
£8.99
