TIME AFTER TIME BY LOUISE PENTLAND

Hardback published by Zaffre Books 21st July 2022

ISBN 9781838774080

Pages 400

Number one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will make you laugh, make you cry and thoroughly charm you!

Sometimes you have to go back, to move forwards.

Tabitha is stuck. She still lives in the small town she grew up in . . . the town she’s barely ever left.

So, when her dad drops a bombshell over their weekly Sunday dinner, Tabitha takes a look at her own life. She lives firmly in her comfort zone and doesn’t know how to break out. Sometimes she wishes she should go back and start it all again.

When she meets Bea, a free spirit like no one else she’s ever known with an ‘interesting’ sense of style, Tabitha quickly befriends her, recognising in Bea the change she’s been craving. But soon it becomes clear that more has changed than her new friend. Somehow Tabitha has been transported back to the 1980s.

With the chance to reinvent herself in another time, will Tabitha finally manage to move forward?

MY REVIEW

My biggest shout out this week is it’s a must read, Time After Time by Louise Pentland. I’m over the moon that I have gained another fabulous book to shout about.

26 year old Tabitha lives in a cottage with her boyfriend, for the owner Julia, she manages a quaint shop pearls and Doodles, that’s painted my favourite colour, bright magenta pink.

There’s a schedule, where Tabitha visits her mum and dad for dinner. A family crisis takes place, at the dinner table. Tabitha’s dad, Tony urgently wants to tell his wife something, his friend Bernie prefers the men over the ladies. He can like whoever he wants to like, Tabitha and her mother agree on.

Well this is lurching from one crisis to another. Tabitha’s dad is about to cause some disruption to the 30 years of marriage. Tony, Tabitha’s dad is struggling to tell Barbara his wife, that thing is Bernie, likes Tony.

This is not the response that Barbara was prepared for, finding out her husband of nearly thirty years of marriage is gay.

What do you say to someone when after thirty years of being married when they find out that their husband is gay?

And what can a daughter say to her mother ? This puts Tabitha in a difficult situation, but her dad is still her dad.

Tabitha is a loveable character with her flare for fashion, and vintage with a boyfriend who she thinks she should marry and has a best friend Vivienne, that Tabitha shares everything with.

Time After Time is my favourite novel by Louise Pentland. I wanted to hold my copy up out my bedroom window and shout read this!

 

About author Louise Pentland

Louise Pentland is a British author, vlogger, blogger and internet personality.

Pentland is best known for her online work, under the title Sprinkleofglitter. She was working in a number of office roles when she began writing a craft and interior DIY blog named “Sprinkle of Glitter”. In January 2010, Pentland began her YouTube channel, also named “Sprinkle of Glitter”. At first the channel covered beauty, fashion and lifestyle; it has since expanded to include motivational and advice videos. In August 2012, Pentland began a second channel named “Sprinkle of Chatter”, where she uploads lifestyle vlogs.

Pentland grew up in Northampton. In 2003, she moved to Liverpool to study Psychology and Biology; she attended Liverpool John Moores University and graduated with honours in 2006.

Pentland has identified as a feminist and interviewed Labour Party leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

On 2 November 2014 she performed a pilot of her LouiseLIVE stage show in Northampton, her home town, and went on to take it on tour around the UK.

On 2 July 2015 she released her debut book Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter through Simon & Schuster publishing. The following month she published Sprinkle of Glitter 2016 Diary: Have the Best Year of Your Life! through Faber and Faber.

She released her debut novel, Wilde Like Me in 2017.

You can follow Louise Pentland on

Twitter @LouisePentland

Instagram @LouisePentland

https://www.louisepentland.com/

https://www.louisepentland.com/blogs/

I would like to thank Tracy Fenton for the invite for this fabulous blog tour and for Zaffre Books sending me a proof copy to review.