A Twist in Time

A time-tumbling story of loss and discovery between centuries
Close your eyes and imagine it’s the year 2019 and it’s your 13th birthday. An important milestone for a young girl. You lag behind a tour group and your parents in the oh so boring Lewis & Clark Caverns in Montana and are suddenly struck by an ear-blasting roar and blinding light. As the shock wave wears off and events unravel, you discover that instead of the year 2019 it is now 1919. Consider everything you take for granted; from air travel to toaster ovens; from twenty-four-hour supermarkets to indoor plumbing. “. . . er, ah, is that an outhouse? I have to do . . . what in there!? What do you mean there’s no toilet paper? And you want me to milk a cow?” And so it goes for Madison, the ultra-rich kid from New York who winds up in the middle of what she sees at first as a Montana nightmare. Asleep, she is not. Neither is Emily, the poorest of the poorest Montana girl who suddenly finds herself in twenty-first century America on the day she was expecting to be celebrating her 13th birthday in 1919. “Those are skyscrapers and I live at the top of one? Cars are way too scary fast. I have my own limo driver?”

Madison and Emily are a pair of brand-new thirteen-year-olds who have switched places and, despite each meeting their first love on the opposite end of the century, wish with everything they’ve got that they could figure out how to switch back.
This is an amazing story that’ll keep you reading from chapter to chapter as the two girls adjust to their new lives after being flipped a century. As Madison’s Grandma Ezzie described it to Emily, they time tumbled, shifted, and turned. Thank you, Janet Muirhead Hill, for another most captivating Montana adventure. I give it the full bucket of stars. — This summary is by James Paddock, Novelist and reviewer.