Time Travel for Beginners

‘Hilarious and heart-breaking, thoughtful and compelling’ Liane Moriarty

‘A big, delicious read’ Sierra Greer

Three strangers’ lives converge in the waiting room of Sydney’s Time Travel Agency – a nondescript shopfront that promises impossible things…

It’s a crisp, wintry Thursday when Anna is hit by a car. In the wake of this chance encounter – possibly lightly concussed, possibly thinking clearly for the first time in a long time – she quits her miserable job and agrees to a job at a strange agency that claims to have discovered the secret to time travel.

Across town, Teddy has been lying flat on his back staring at the ceiling for the past three weeks. Since his wife left him for his brother he just can’t seem to get up. When he spies an advert promising journeys into your past, he figures he can at least learn what went wrong.

And Jade, for some reason, is journalling. A friend gifted her a ‘creative mentorship’ and now once a week she’s expected to open her mind and fill pages in a small room above the Time Travel Agency. She’s not particularly convinced, but there’s something that just keeps bringing her back.

Over the course of one winter, three lives converge around a very unusual travel agency. It offers them a chance to revisit the choices that have shaped their lives and those of the ones they love – but how can you move forward if you're obsessed by the past? Time Travel for Beginners is a magical, human and hopeful novel that reminds us that the gift of life is that we can’t go back, that the only way out is through.

About the author

Jaclyn Moriarty is the bestselling author of novels for young adults and adults including Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy, and the Colours of Madeleine trilogy. Jaclyn grew up in Sydney, lived in England, the US, and Canada, and now lives in Sydney again. She has been the recipient of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the Queensland Literary Award, and the Aurealis Award for Fantasy. Her books have been named Boston Globe Honor Books, White Raven selections and Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Assocation. She is very fond of chocolate, blueberries, ice-skating and sleep.