Time Together

Once they were just them. Now they’re forty-something and there’s kids. Whose time is this?

Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent’s house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he’s invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It’s bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it’s too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there’s Annie, who will be by herself.

The story of a beach holiday told by four different people, Time Together is a novel about different kinds of love, different kinds of loneliness, and the way spending time together can bring out the best and worst in each other.