Alice in Time
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
If you could live your life over again, what would you change?
Things are at crisis point for 14-year-old Alice. Her mum is ruining her life, her dad's getting remarried and she has to wear a hideous bridesmaid's dress, she can't stand her little brother Rory, and Sasha, the most popular girl at school, hates her guts.
Then something very odd happens: Alice falls off a roundabout and finds that she is seven years old again. Reliving the past with her 14-year-old consciousness, she gains a disconcerting new perspective on her family and friendships, and she is forced to confront the truth of her parents' separation and question her former loyalties. Life will never be the same again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Debut novelist Bush offers a conventional coming-of-age story with a time-travel twist, first published in the U.K. Fourteen-year-old Alice hates her life: her seven-year-old brother, Rory, is a brat; Alice blames her mother for ruining their family by leaving her father; she's growing apart from her best friend, Imogen; and Alice's classmate Sasha makes her life miserable at school. When Alice is pursued by a cute new student, she ends up setting into motion a trip back in time. Suddenly, Alice is seven years old again and has the opportunity to change her future. At first her goals seem clear: save her family from falling apart and make Sasha's life miserable. But surprises await Alice, among them that her father is not entirely the good guy she believed him to be. Alice's dry humor is engaging, but her ongoing selfishness (she gives Rory a run for his money as far as brattiness is concerned) gets old quickly. There is never much doubt that Alice will emerge from her journey kinder and more confident. Ages 12 up.