A Page in Your Diary: An '80s Time Travel Adventure by Keith A. PearsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I f you know me you know I love a time travel novel (unless it involves men in kilts), so when I saw this book available on Kindle Unlimited I was intrigued.
Sean Hardy thinks he has been (relatively) happily married for over thirty years, then he discovers his wife has been cheating on him. After the divorce he decides he can no longer in the West Country and his wife and her lover have remained in the same town, so he returns to his childhood home of Guildford, even though his parents are both dead and his brother lives abroad. Running into an old school friend/acquaintance he finds out that he recently missed a school reunion, the friend takes great delight in recounting who has fared badly and then ghoulishly listing the people that have died. None of this is much interest to Sean until he mentions Jackie Benton, she was Sean's first girlfriend, they were together for five years, until Sean met his now ex-wife at Exeter university and rather cowardly dumped Jackie by phone. Apparently Jackie died only a year after they broke up! When Sean visits her parents to offer his condolences her step-father accuses Sean of being the cause - brandishing an incriminating page from Jackie's diary which says she doesn't want to live after being dumped by Sean.
Somehow Sean is transported back to 1988, just a few weeks before Jackie's tragic death, all he can think (once he realises what has happened) is that he has been sent back in time to prevent her suicide.
As someone said on the Amazon page, if you remember the 1980s and love a time travel novel this is right up your street. Its nice for the protagonist to be an overweight fifty-something man trying to connect with his twenty-something former girlfriend and I loved the trip down Memory Lane - I'd totally forgotten that nothing used to be open on a Sunday.
Its fun seeing how Sean finds money and a place to stay, then finding its not so easy to become friends with a young woman - love his cover story!
Overall, a really great story.
Read on my Kindle Unlimited subscription.
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