This Time Tomorrow

Praise for Emma Straub

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It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible

Liane Moriarty

Funny, poignant and beautifully observed

Jojo Moyes

Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit

Daily Mail

Smart and entertaining

Stylist

Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading

Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

Warm and big-hearted . . . leaves you smiling for days

Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits

New York Times

A funny and insightful look at love and relationships

Good Housekeeping

A smart, cool sensibility

Elle

Lovely, satisfying

EW.com

Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us

Brooklyn Magazine

Thoughtful and hilarious

Real Simple

It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she's already a master in her own right

The Millions

Wise and often hilarious

Buzzfeed

Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel

Publishers Weekly

A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub's characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it's a pleasure spending time with them

Starred Review, Kirkus

Devilishly observed

Starred Review, Booklist

Sprinkled with humour and insight

Starred Review, Library Journal

Straub is consistently excellent

Book Riot

'A gorgeous and witty storyteller'

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls

This Time Tomorrow is a beautifully made, elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight-then breaks your heart with its bittersweet, lingering song

Michael Chabon

If I could time travel, I'd go back just far enough to start Emma Straub's beautiful novel This Time Tomorrow again for the first time. The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more

Ann Patchett

Time travel is a popular trope in fiction, and Straub deploys it brilliantly in her effervescent new novel. .... Straub is an expert chronicler of social mores and the inner lives of her (mostly) bourgeois characters, and here she delivers a surefire bestseller

Oprah Daily

The always delightful, deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30.... It's Straub, so you know it's going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama

Glamour

With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story

Biblio

A heartfelt father-daughter story that breathes fresh life into the concept of time travel

Living North

I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom

Jodi Picoult

A witty, warm novel about love and letting go, This Time Tomorrow is a rare gem. Emma Straub is such an elegant storyteller - I couldn't put it down

Phoebe Luckhurst, author of <i>The Lock In</i>

Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow is that rare one-in-a-million novel that not only pulls you wholly into itself, but leaves a lasting mark when it finally releases you. Never has Straub's writing been more incisive, clever, and emotionally generous-which is really saying something. The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional

Emily Henry, author of <i> You, Me on Vacation</i>

Straub has made a mastery of witty, warm novels that spin modern tales with literary flair. Her fourth might be her best. A clever, nostalgic, romantic tale. Part-Russian Doll, part-David Nicholls, it has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic

Evening Standard

This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have

ELLE

Her most emotionally resonant work yet ... a complex tale that doesn't feel the slightest bit complicated

Vogue

Has a lot of heart, some satisfying plot twists and a bittersweet, open ended finale

BookPage Starred Review

A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important. It makes you want to stop what you're doing and call your loved ones immediately

Stylist, 'Book of the Week'

An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub

Metro

Delightful

Boston Globe

Poignant

New York Times

Shines with humour and warmth

Washington Post

Can't recommend this deeply moving and pleasurable book more

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, bestselling author of <i>Fleischman is in Trouble</i>

This New York-set story about time travel will break your heart

Red

A teasing time-slip novel, imbued with all Straub's trademark humour and humanity

Saga Magazine

Alice is a joy of a character . . . Straub brings the bittersweet passing of youth to adulthood to life in vivid detail, with a story steeped in 1990s nostalgia. It's a book to devour

Jewish Chronicle

A wonderful book . . . about how we need to cherish those we have lost

Hello!

This grown-up take on Freaky Friday balances humour and poignancy so well

Good Housekeeping

Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic, This Time Tomorrow asks the big questions of life while revelling in 90s nostalgia and the allure of New York City in the fall

Daily Express

A wonderfully bittersweet story willed with humour, compassion and poignancy

Candis

Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant

Mail on Sunday

A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love

i

Not every book teaches you something, but Emma Straub's insightful novel does. Witty observations and beautiful writing

Woman & Home

Delightfully nostalgic but the beauty of it rests in its tenderness and wisdom - a reminder of what's important and what we should cherish in life

Culturefly

Heartfelt

SFX

This autobiographical novel is delightfully nostalgic but the beauty of it rests in its tenderness and wisdom - a reminder of what's important and what we should cherish in life

Culturefly

Clever, complex and really rather lovely

Best

Emma Straub is such a funny and brilliant writer and this time-travelling tale is a charming exploration of what it would be like to find yourself younger and surrounded by the people you love when they're still at the height of their power

Stylist

Enlivened by Straub's typically acerbic prose and quirky characters, not to mention a good dose of 90s nostalgia

Jewish Chronicle, 'Fiction of the Year'

One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love

Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Deliciously warm and nostalgic

Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Emotionally resonant. Captivating

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