Time After Time
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Remember the 80s? The batwing jumpers, the puffball skirts, the dragged-through-a-hedge-backwards hair? Cass Thomson does - from the heavy eyeliner to the hits of Spandau Ballet it all feels like yesterday...
Cass is intrigued and a little frightened when she receives an invitation to a school reunion. If she goes, there's a possibility that she'll meet Gideon Harker, the boy she adored from the age of 13 with the desperate intensity of first love. From his bleach-blond hair to his punk boots, Gideon was her ideal man, and she's never met anyone to match him, not even now she's running a minor stately home and perfectly content with her sports journalist boyfriend Greg.
It's dangerous to go back and see what might have been: what if Gideon is no longer the romantic, soul-searching, green-eyed charmer she remembers, but a balding, beer-bellied, nine-to-fiver? But Cass just can't help herself...
A delightful romantic comedy from the author of Two's Company.
'Funny, realistic and romantic. I loved it' - Katie Fforde
'A gorgeous, intelligent, warm and funny book' - Christina Jones
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Cass Thomson has a lot on her hands in this amusing romantic comedy set on the outskirts of London. As the live-in administrator of historic Coltsfoot Hall, a family manor turned museum, Cass must come up with a financial plan to save the estate and her own living quarters from the clutches of real estate developers. At the same time, the current man in her life, a sportswriter who lives for soccer games, doesn't exactly light her fire. No man, in fact, has sent her reeling the way her teenage boyfriend, Gideon Harker, did years ago, when the six-foot-four hunk in black eyeliner and leather trench coat won her heart by asking her to pierce his ear. When her 15th high school reunion rolls around, Cass goes into fits of anxiety and anticipation. Haasler (Two's Company) builds suspense and piles on the pop culture references Thin Lizzy, Wham!, The Waltons and much more as Cass reminisces about Gideon and the rest of her early-'80s youth. It turns out that the rebel heartthrob is now in high finance, and there's an unconvincing subplot about his possible dabbling in fraud, which has him being trailed by a tiresome, hapless detective. The blissful ending will satisfy the 30-something romance-reading set, who will also appreciate the nostalgic references (though Haasler lays it on a little thick, with each section heading titled after a pop song). This featherweight, by-the-numbers effort is as ephemeral yet curiously appealing as the fashions it celebrates.
