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The Summer of Impossible Things

By: Rowan Coleman
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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Thirty years ago something terrible happened to Luna's mother. Something she's prepared to reveal only after her death.

In settling her mother's affairs, Luna finds more questions than answers, until something impossible and magical happens....

Luna meets her mother as a young woman back in the summer of 1977. If she can truly travel back in time, she can change things. But in order to save her mother's life, will she have to sacrifice her own?

©2017 Rowan Coleman (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Urban Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

"It's so lovely to find an author you love." (Marian Keyes, best-selling author of The Woman Who Stole My Life)
"Beautiful." (Jodi Picoult, best-selling author of The Storyteller)
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This book challenges our preconceptions about the nature of time in an exciting and challenging way as the story unfolds. Switching time between past and present needs open mindedness on the part of the reader. The more flexibly you approach it, the more opportunity you will have to be delighted by this engaging psychological adventure.

An Engaging Psychological Adventure

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I finished it because I thought it would improve - turns out the friend who recommended it neither finished it nor liked it either. The mixture of romance and time travel doesn't work for me.

Silly

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Brilliant book and narration. It’s loosely fan fiction for Saturday Night Fever- which was pleasantly unexpected. It has all of the mystery and intrigue of a crime thriller, but the whimsy that makes you wish it was real. I fell asleep thinking about my plot theories. A lucky coincidence- I was reading it on the dates it was set. It is amazing. And what a voice actor! I can almost do a convincing Brooklyn accent after listening to this!

I was dreaming about it

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