A lifetime of impossible days
Bird, Tabitha2019
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An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable . . . Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 . . . 33 . . . and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: 'One ocean: plant in the backyard.' So she does - and somehow creates an extraordinary time-slip that allows her to visit her future selves. On one impossible day in 1990, Willa is 33 and a mother-of-two when her childhood self magically appears in her backyard. But she's also a woman haunted by memories of her dark past - and is on the brink of a decision that will have tragic repercussions . . . On one impossible day in 2050, Willa is a silver-haired, gumboot-loving 93-year-old whose memory is fading fast. Yet she knows there's something she has to remember, a warning she must give her past selves about a terrible event in 1990. If only she could recall what it was. Can the three Willas come together, to heal their past and save their future, before it's too late?
Main title:
A lifetime of impossible days / Tabitha Bird.
Author:
Bird, Tabitha, author
Imprint:
[North Sydney, New South Wales] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia, 2019.
Collation:
395 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes book club discussion notes.
Audience:
Tertiary/Undergraduate.General.
Awards:
Winner of the 2020 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award
ISBN:
9780143792260 (paperback)01437922619781760144395 (epub)1760144398
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Modern & contemporary fictionAustralian fictionInterpersonal relations -- FictionLife cycle, Human -- FictionTime travel -- FictionMemory -- FictionGirls -- FictionMothers -- FictionOlder women -- FictionSpace and time -- FictionLife change events -- FictionAustralian fictionTime-travel fictionMagic realist fictionAustralian fiction
Index terms:
Australian
BRN:
354134
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BIRD | Available |
| Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BIRD | Available |