Time After Time (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick)
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
**A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick**
**A USA Today Bestseller**
Two love stories. One hundred years apart. An unforgettable sapphic romance from the screenwriter and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart.
Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to the old Victorian house on Mulberry Lane. So much so that when she sees a For Sale sign go up in the front yard, Libby uses all the money her grandmother left her to pay for college to buy the house instead, determined to fix it up herself—even though she knows her parents will be furious.
Tish, a brash, broke fellow student, doesn’t need much to get by. She can fix almost anything, so she makes do by building sets for the theater department and working odd jobs at the nearby salvage yard. Tish passes by the house one day and is mysteriously compelled to knock on the door. Libby offers her a room in exchange for her help with repairing the old house, and as they begin to work together, the two young women quickly find themselves growing closer.
Soon after moving in, Libby discovers a journal written by a young woman, Elizabeth, who lived in the house a century earlier and was deeply in love with her personal maid, Patricia. As Elizabeth’s journal entries delve deeper into her secret affair with Patricia—a love that was forbidden and dangerous in their time—Libby can’t help but notice uncanny similarities between that young couple and Tish and herself.
Have she and Tish lived this life before? And is this their chance to get it right?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sweet sapphic romances progress in parallel a century apart in this slow-burn epic from Daughtry (All This Time). Shunned by her parents after using an inheritance to purchase a ramshackle Victorian house rather than funding college, 19-year-old Libby Monroe moves into the property, which has long fascinated her. Also drawn to the residence is student Tish O'Connell, whose frugality and fix-it skills make the house into a home. As sparks fly between the two teens, Libby learns more about the house's former occupant, Elizabeth Post, through a diary she left behind. A privileged 19-year-old in 1925, Elizabeth falls in love with her similarly aged maid Patricia, a recent arrival from Ireland. Though readers learn early on that Elizabeth dies elderly, alone, and sad, the mystery surrounding Patricia's fate ramps up the suspense as the present-day timeline similarly teeters on the edge of heartbreak. While some subplots aren't satisfactorily resolved, vivacious banter and delightful found family narratives contribute to a fully realized cast. The characters in the 1925 timeline are predominantly white and closeted; the present, by contrast, features intersectionally diverse, openly queer protagonists. Ages 12–up.
