Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue
Hardback published by Walker 5th June 2025
ISBN 9781529507966
For 14 Years and up
When a mystifying train journey brings Margo to another dimension, she finds that not only are there many worlds aside from her own, but each of them has a unique relationship to time. Go north and a day can pass in a couple of hours, travel south and the sun may take a week to set. Here she meets Moon, a travelling salesman into a realm at war with its self. Soon Margo discovers that time determines everything power, privilege and her own survival. How do you spend time when it’s running out, and when you’ve just met the person with whom you’d spend eternity?
MY REVIEW
Oh yes!! I’m really pleased that author Caroline O’Donoghue is back with a bang, with a totally different type of genre of content a fantastic fantasy time-travel. The setting is most unique giving me the boost that I so needed. With no one on board a train apart from a travelling salesman and one other passenger young girl, heading to New Davia. When you become a salesman you quickly discern the difference between The Rules and The Law. Lying about your quantities is breaking rules… wherever she had ended up, her bags had not deigned to come with her. She had nothing except the clothes on her back. Even her phone, somehow, had stayed on the Cork train. I am a huge fan of author Caroline O’Donoghue, with reading every single book she has written, leading me to read this unputdownable, outstanding book, that should be adapted into a TV film.
About author Caroline O’Donaghue
Caroline O’Donoghue is a New York Times bestselling author and podcaster. She has published two adult novels, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. All Our Hidden Gifts, her YA debut fantasy, was shortlisted for a National Book Token award and has been published in over 20 territories worldwide. It is the first of her critically acclaimed ‘Gifts’ trilogy and is followed by The Gifts That Binds Us (2021) and a third, arriving in 2023.
Formerly a journalist, Caroline has written for The Times, The Guardian, and most of the Irish press. Her award-winning podcast, Sentimental Garbage covers “the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of” and tops the podcast charts internationally. Caroline lives in London with her partner and her dog
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