Running Behind Time
Published on 2. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-912855-93-3 (ISBN)
Description
There's a wrinkle in time on the 15:15 train from Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
It's the Summer of 1982, and Beth Sawyer is thrilled to have landed the title role in a play. It may only be in a fringe theatre in Shepherd's Bush, but it's the start she's always dreamed of.
It's the Summer of 2020, amid the global pandemic, and Tom Brookes is furloughed. Unable to face lockdown in a tiny city flat, he moves back to his mother's cottage in the sleepy Cotswold village of Stoatsfield-under-Ridge.
Neither of them expects an everyday train journey to throw their normal lives so spectacularly off-course.
This is the story of an extraordinary encounter between two people who should never have met.
A time-slip story that's a must for fans of Kate Atkinson, Audrey Niffenegger & Diana GabaldonMore details
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912855-93-3 (9781912855933)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
As a writer, Jan is always keen to challenge herself. Her first published novels - the three volumes that make up The Eldísvík Trilogy - are Nordic noir thrillers set fifty years in the future in a Scandinavian city where the rule of law comes under threat from the criminal cartels that control the badlands surrounding it.
Her fourth novel - 'Too Many Heroes' - is, by contrast, a period romantic thriller set in the early 1950s - a story of an illicit love affair that angers the mobsters controlling London's East End.
Jan's fifth novel: 'Towards the Vanishing Point' is also set primarily in the 1950s and depicts an enduring friendship between two women that is put to the test when one of them falls under the spell of a sinister charmer.
'The Truth in a Lie', Jan's latest novel and the first with a contemporary setting.
Her fourth novel - 'Too Many Heroes' - is, by contrast, a period romantic thriller set in the early 1950s - a story of an illicit love affair that angers the mobsters controlling London's East End.
Jan's fifth novel: 'Towards the Vanishing Point' is also set primarily in the 1950s and depicts an enduring friendship between two women that is put to the test when one of them falls under the spell of a sinister charmer.
'The Truth in a Lie', Jan's latest novel and the first with a contemporary setting.