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Time After Time
A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She's dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly peril.
In the Napolionic period, a little boy must walk miles to market, on his own, for the first time.
In the present day, a teenage girl - along with her best friend Rob - faces the challenges of her extreme shyness and mutism.
There is another presence too. Professor Molly Barnes - in her eighties - unwittingly presides over the narratives, looking back on her own coming-of-age, recalling her earliest memories of friendship and questioning her own profession and its capacity to discover true versions of history.
A tri-narrative tale set in the East Anglian countryside, connecting three very different stories to an archaeological discovery of a Roman mosaic floor and a mysterious Anglo-Saxon bracelet, "Time After Time" is a coming-of-age novel with an adult perspective.
In the Napolionic period, a little boy must walk miles to market, on his own, for the first time.
In the present day, a teenage girl - along with her best friend Rob - faces the challenges of her extreme shyness and mutism.
There is another presence too. Professor Molly Barnes - in her eighties - unwittingly presides over the narratives, looking back on her own coming-of-age, recalling her earliest memories of friendship and questioning her own profession and its capacity to discover true versions of history.
A tri-narrative tale set in the East Anglian countryside, connecting three very different stories to an archaeological discovery of a Roman mosaic floor and a mysterious Anglo-Saxon bracelet, "Time After Time" is a coming-of-age novel with an adult perspective.
161 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2022
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Victor Watson
25 books5 followersVictor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge, England. He has co-edited a number of books on children's literature.
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November 12, 2023
This is one of my all time favourite books. It is beautifully written, tender and evocative, and I so enjoyed immersing myself in the lives of well-crafted characters inhabiting very different times.
January 13, 2024
Very evocative tale, too gripping to put down.
September 26, 2025
Definitely my sort of story or should I say stories?! Loved the emphasis on how all that separates us is time and how there are so many untold stories from the past which we will never know. Also interesting to see such a local side to history and exploring all the different time periods of East Anglia (mainly the Anglo Saxon period), definitely something I would like to read into more!
October 9, 2023
This is a lovely lyrical intelligent tale of three cleverly interwoven lives.
I positively raced through this book as it was such a joy to read. Watson demonstrates his scholarship in Angle-Saxon language and culture as he describes the budding story-teller fleeing for her life. And there is the engaging giant selling Banbury books, and mute Zara who has so much to say. Excitingly we meet again Molly from the Paradise Barns series, now in her eighties.
Transporting and evocative.
A very good read.
I positively raced through this book as it was such a joy to read. Watson demonstrates his scholarship in Angle-Saxon language and culture as he describes the budding story-teller fleeing for her life. And there is the engaging giant selling Banbury books, and mute Zara who has so much to say. Excitingly we meet again Molly from the Paradise Barns series, now in her eighties.
Transporting and evocative.
A very good read.
December 7, 2024
Lovely lyrical intelligent tale of three cleverly interwoven stories set in three very different times.
I positively raced through this book as it was such a joy to read. Watson demonstrates his scholarship in Angle-Saxon language and culture as he describes the budding story-teller fleeing for her life. And there is the engaging giant selling Banbury books during the Napoleonic era, and mute modern-day Zara who has so much to say. Excitingly we meet again Molly from the Paradise Barns series, now in her eighties. Transporting and evocative. Watson has such a gift for weaving wonderful stories.
I positively raced through this book as it was such a joy to read. Watson demonstrates his scholarship in Angle-Saxon language and culture as he describes the budding story-teller fleeing for her life. And there is the engaging giant selling Banbury books during the Napoleonic era, and mute modern-day Zara who has so much to say. Excitingly we meet again Molly from the Paradise Barns series, now in her eighties. Transporting and evocative. Watson has such a gift for weaving wonderful stories.
January 6, 2023
Poetic, evocative and engaging. Tales old and new spanning time and history. Particularly liked Saewara the story spinner, crunching through snow in dark woods evading dangerous marauders.
Mysterious and magic, what’s not to like?
Mysterious and magic, what’s not to like?
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