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When events of the past impact the present you are guaranteed intrigue. Sometimes, in a really good time-slip novel, the protagonist gets the chance to move through time. In other books, it is the reader that has the knowledge of what happens in both time periods. Either way, it makes for a delicious reading adventure. Here are ten lovely books that'll allow you to slip through time…
1. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton – In 1913 a boat sails from England to Australia and a child is found abandoned. A lady called the Authoress promises to look after her, but then she disappears. Many years later, in 1975, Nell is now an old lady and wants to find out the truth. She travels back to England and Cornwall and comes across Blackhurst Manor. When Nell dies, her granddaughter receives a surprise inheritance…
2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King – 11.22.63 or 22nd November 1963. This is the date that Kennedy was shot. But what might the world be like if that infamous murder had never taken place? Jake Epping is a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination.
3. The Return by Victoria Hislop – Sonia, looking for more from life, joins a salsa class in London. Later, her friend Maggie books them a holiday in Granada, Spain, to give them a chance to dance. Whilst there Sonia meets an old waiter and is soon drawn into the story of the Ramirez family during the Spanish civil war.
4. If I Could Turn Back Time by Nicola Doherty – Recently dumped by her boyfriend, Zoe is miserable. Then she wakes up one morning six months in the past. She has only gone back in time and has the luxurious chance to put things right.5. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – Ursula Todd keeps being born in 1910, reliving the same century again and again.
6. Mariana by Susanna Kearsley – Julia Beckett knew Greywethers was her house when she first saw it at the age of five. And, as an adult, she really does buy it, but she feels it's not the first time she has owned the property. Not long after moving into her new home, Julia finds herself transported into 17th century England, as Mariana, a young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and battling a forbidden love.
7. The Time Traveler's Wife – Henry is born with a rare genetic condition that finds him pulled through time, where he meets his future wife as a child, before they meet as adults.
8. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse – It is July 1209 and a 17-year-old girl in Carcassonne is given a mysterious book by her father. In it, he claims, is the secret of the true Grail. Fast forward to July 2005 when Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees, and the story really begins.
9. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon – Claire is travelling to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It is 1945 and they are taking a belated honeymoon having been reunited after the war. Then Claire walks through some ancient stones and vanishes to 1743 where she meets a British army officer – her husband's six times great-grandfather. But he is nothing like her husband and Claire finds herself running from danger, when she falls into a group of outlaws, and into the arms of a strapping Scots warrior.
10. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier – When Dick Young agrees to be a guinea pig for a new drug, it causes him to time travel to the 14th century, where he witnesses murder, intrigue and adultery…
Do you like time-slip novels? Any recommendations for us?