Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty

Time Travel for Beginners is a new novel from Jaclyn Moriarty, the Sydney writer and sister of Liane Moriarty. It is warm, funny and a bit sad, and it is set in a shop that should not exist.

On a busy Sydney road, behind an ordinary shopfront, is the Time Travel Agency. Inside there is good coffee, something baked, and one question: where in time do you want to go? You can visit the past freely, with no risk of changing the present. Have tea with Jane Austen, go to a Beatles concert, or take a more personal trip, back to a lost grandmother, or to the one decision that changed everything.

Three strangers are drawn in. Anna, a single mother offered a job at the agency. Teddy, trying to make sense of a marriage that has fallen apart. And Jade, who has a secret and hates the agency for selling false hope. Their stories move towards each other as the novel asks what we would really do with a second look at the past.

Adult fiction for readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Midnight Library.

'A joyfully sad, quietly clever and loudly delightful time-travel novel.' Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld

'A truly extraordinary, exquisite novel, both hilarious and heart-breaking.' Liane Moriarty