The Midnight Library meets This Time Tomorrow in this page-turning, deeply affecting novel that follows twentysomething Alex as he suddenly wakes one day and finds it’s fifteen years into his future; the next day, it’s nine years later still. Never knowing which day will come next, Alex sets out on an emotional and at times gut-wrenching journey to discover just how much one can change their fate.
 
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman, and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a run-in with a former childhood bully sees him bruised and bloody and almost drowning in the Thames. He awakes the next day only to find he’s in a room he’s never seen before, in clothes he doesn’t recognize, with no idea of how he got here. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he’s older—much older—and has been living a rather hard life, his features ravaged by time and poor decisions. He snatches a newspaper and finds it’s 2010—fifteen years since that night by the river.
 
After finally drifting off to sleep that night, 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 by the river. But what exactly is going on? Why does his life look nothing like he thought it would? And can he change it? Alex must push against the heavy headwind of fate, however impossible that might feel, and learn that small actions have untold impact, and might be all he needs to same himself and the people he loves most.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
James Goodhand has written two YA novels, published by PRH Children’s Books in the UK. His debut, Last Lesson (“A powerfully charged study in empathy” —The Financial Times) was published in April 2020, and has been optioned for TV by Red Planet Pictures, with his second, Man Down, in March 2022. This is his first work of adult fiction. He lives in England.