The Day Tripper (James Goodhand)
30 October 2024
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a place at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames.
He wakes the next day to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognise. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he's older-much older-his features ravaged by time and poor decisions. It's 2010-fifteen years since the fight.
After finally managing to sleep, Alex wakes the following morning to find it's now 2019, another nine years later. But the next day, it's 1999. Never knowing which day is coming, he begins to piece together what happens in his life after that fateful night.
But what exactly is going on? Why does his life look nothing like he thought it would? What about Cambridge, and Holly? In this page-turning adventure, Alex must navigate his way through the years to learn that good decisions can have untold impact. And that might be all he needs to save the people he loves and, equally importantly, himself.
Average Rating:
Sean Aaron (27 November 2024 17:57)
Hallmark movie pablum. An easy read, but unrewarding.
Graham MacDonald (31 October 2024 16:25)
An alternative to the "Changing your own past" time travel trope where instead of massive changes made by a small action we see small incremental changes and shifts in attitude slowly allowing our main character to discover that there's more to life than drink and money. Quite emotionally effecting at points and a little but clunky at others it has a lot more to say than many other books of it's type and does it with subtlety. If you read this you will start off having little sympathy for it's selfish main character who's main relationship is not with the woman of his dreams but with alcohol and partying but during his journey he slowly discovers more about himself than he possibly could living his life sequentially and makes the changes needed to set himself on a much more fulfilling path and by then end you're totally on his side. Enjoyed this a lot.