All Our Wrong Todays: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2017 - Softcover

Mastai, Elan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718184084 ISBN 13: 9780718184087

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2017

Synopsis

So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have.

That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have.

But it never should've turned out like this. And it's all my fault - well, me and to a lesser extent my father.

And, yeah, I guess a little bit Penelope.

In both worlds, she's the love of my life. But only a single version of her can exist.

I have one impossible chance to fix history's greatest mistake and save this broken world.

Except it means saving one Penelope and losing the other forever - and I have absolutely no idea which to choose . . .

Praise for All Our Wrong Todays

'A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future'
Andy Weir, author of international bestseller The Martian

'A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging. A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart. And a novel this smart has no right to be this funny. Or insightful. Or immersive. Basically, this novel has no right to exist."
Jonathan Tropper, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You and One Last Thing Before I Go

'Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty and freewheeling time-traveling romance that packs an emotional wallop.All Our Wrong Todays is a page-turning delight'
Maria Semple, author of Today Will Be Different and Where'd You Go, Bernadette

About this title

Review:

Sharp, funny writing in a mind-bending, time-travelling junket of a novel (Daily Mail)

A mind-bending time travel caper (Guardian)

Elan Mastai manages the [time-travel] genre masterfully in his debut novel (Olivia Ovenden Esquire)

A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future (Andy Weir, author of international bestseller The Martian)

A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging.
A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart.
And a novel this smart has no right to be this funny. Or insightful. Or immersive.
Basically, this novel has no right to exist."

(Jonathan Tropper, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You and One Last Thing Before I Go)

Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty and freewheeling time-traveling romance that packs an emotional wallop. All Our Wrong Todays is a page-turning delight (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette)

All Our Wrong Todays is elaborately constructed and incredibly emotionally intelligent; it's a story with super high stakes that genuinely makes you feel every part of Tom's awful predicament (SciFiNow)

Witty, original, funny, charming - a great story!

(Joe Haddow, BBC Radio 2 Book Club)

It's all very clever, but it's also not really the point. Because as well as being an intelligent sci-fi story, it's also a love story, and kind of a monomyth, and also just an incredibly relatable, insightful story about being in your 30s, feeling like you haven't achieved anything, and figuring out what's next (SciFiNow UK)

A timeless, if mind-bending, story about the journeys we take, populated by friends, family, lovers and others, that show us who we might be, could be - and maybe never should be - that eventually leads us to who we are (USA Today)

From the Back Cover:

'Witty and emotional ... a page-turning delight' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

This is a love story that could only happen because of an accident of time travel. In it we meet Tom and Penny, who belong to a world so perfect there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados.

But when something awful happens to Penny and Tom tries to make it right - you guessed it, with time travel - he accidentally destroys everything and wakes up in our broken, mixed-up world.

Only here, Penny and Tom have a second chance.

Should he try to fix everything and go back to his brilliant, but loveless world, or remain in our messy, complicated one and take a chance on being happy with Penny?

'A mind-bending time travel caper' Guardian

'Sharp and funny' Daily Mail

'Thrilling and refreshingly optimistic' Andy Weir, author of The Martian

'Amazing, dazzling, exuberant, touching' Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0718184084
• ISBN 13: 9780718184087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400