July 2025 – This month is all about time travel
I am a huge Michael Thompson fan. I loved How to be Remembered and absolutely adored All the Perfect Days. His new book centres around Dr Charlie Knight who can suddenly see how many days left his patients have. What would you do? Would you want to know?
The Time Traveler’s Wife is absolutely one of my top five all time novels, I love love love this one. I’ve read Audrey Niffengger’s other works, but Henry and Claire’s story just really hits for me.
The Names by Florence Knapp came out only a few weeks ago and is like a ‘sliding doors’ book; it asks what would happen if a baby is named as per the father’s choice, the mother’s or the baby’s sister and it was fascinating. There are strong trigger warnings required though, I can see it won’t be for everyone. But I loved it. I’m still pondering it honestly.
How would any recommendations list on time be complete without Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander series! A WW2 nurse honeymooning in Scotland accidentally goes back in time to the 1740’s and finds her soulmate. Love, adventure and so much more. Definitely the stuff of classic time novels. I I’ve been reading these since the 90s and adore them.
I am not going to say too much about Christian White’s The Wife and the Widow. I’m afraid I’ve given too much away even by including it in my recs. Read it and we can chat then!