Review: The Seven Year Slip

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Clementine is having a crisis, her beloved aunt died suddenly six months ago, leaving Clementine her New York apartment. Clementine can barely bring herself to stay in an apartment that holds so many precious memories of her bohemian, enchanting, magical aunt, and yet she paradoxically can't even force herself to get out of bed. She and her aunt loved to travel, all over the world, on a whim pretty much saying 'yes' to any new experience on offer.

Returning home after a rare evening out with friends to try the new 'IT' restaurant from an up-and-coming darling of the fine dining scene, Clementine is horrified to find a strange man in her apartment's kitchen. Once she's calmed down enough to talk to the man (and confirm he's not an axe murderer), she discovers that his mother is a friend of her aunt's and her aunt agreed to let him stay in the apartment while she was in Europe for a few months. Only problem is, Clementine was with her aunt on that trip, which was seven years ago!

The apartment appears to be capricious, not letting Clementine return to the present day one minute and not letting her return to the past the next. But over the summer she starts to fall for the Southern guy with a drawl and his big dreams of being a chef one day. Clementine's aunt always said the apartment was magical, and hinted that she too had had a time slip romance.

I loved this, so many layers to unpick, grief, betrayal, time-travel, ambition, love.

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