Believe the unbelievable

“The loss of my mother is like a missing tooth: an absence I can feel at all times, but one I can hide as long as I keep my mouth shut. And so I rarely talk about her.”

Faye loves her life, she has a loving husband and adores her children, she has a great job and good friends, but the loss of her mother when she was a child is a grief that she carries with her always. Faye has little in the way of reminders of her mother, in fact just a photograph of herself as a six-year-old sitting in an empty Space Hopper box under a Christmas tree. Faye treasures the photograph because she knows her mother was there, behind the camera, taking the picture.

One day, Faye encounters that same box - now old and battered - in her husband’s study; he’s brought it down from the attic and used it to store textbooks. Faye, feeling possessive, empties it and returns it to the attic where she hits her head on a lightbulb and shatters it. When she steps into the box to avoid the broken glass, she falls through it, landing (painfully) in the 1970s, under the Christmas tree in the house she grew up in. Her mother, and her six-year-old self are asleep upstairs. Faced with the chance to finally seek answers to her questions about the past - but away from her husband and children – how much is Faye willing to give up for more time with her mother?

For fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife comes an original and heart-warming story about bittersweet memories, how the past shapes the future, and a love so strong it makes you do things that are slightly bonkers.