Goodreads asked Richard Happer:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Richard Happer What if you could go back in time and correct some of the mistakes you've made?

Or even just one tiny thing? Like asking a person for a date or taking a golden opportunity.

Do you think changing it would improve your present-day situation?

Or should even things you regret be left as they are?

These are questions I've often pondered with regard to my own youthful decisions. And I decided to explore this theme by writing a novel called 'Love On The Springs Of My Time-Travelling Bed'.

This tale is about Freddy, who is confused and frustrated with his mid-thirties life and in a moment of what he considers insight decides that his current misery is all the fault of his 19-year-old self. So he builds a time machine and heads back to give his younger self a good stiff talking to, and to help him sort his love life out.

It's clearly a brilliant plan - what could possibly go wrong?

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