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The Psychology of Time Travel
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project - and future of time travel - in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team - erasing her contributions from history.
Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother Granny Bee was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more. But when Bee receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of an unidentified woman, Ruby becomes obsessed: could it be Bee? Who would want her dead? And most importantly of all: can her murder be stopped?
Traversing the decades and told from alternating perspectives, The Psychology of Time Travel introduces a fabulous new voice in fiction and a new must-listen for fans of speculative fiction and women’s fiction alike.
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- Eudaimonist
- 29-05-20
A good listen
Intriguing take on time travel. Enjoyable plot brought alive by the narrator. would definitely recommend
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- Ms. C Bond
- 25-02-21
Beautifully rendered
An atypical time travel story: subtly textured with its arcing character portrayals; neither overly burdened with science nor fluffy explanations of the mechanics but well balanced with logic and constraints; elegantly tangled and gently teased into a new, satisfying configuration at completion. The rare kind of book where it is only after the end that you realise how sophisticated a book it really was. A wonderful impression to be left with.
The narration was excellent, and leant just the right air to the piece. I was quite captivated.
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- Bob Cunningham
- 17-07-20
Only if you’ll forgive anything in the name of feminism.
This review should be read with a proviso.
If it was written as teen/young adult literature then allowances would have been made - but if that’s the case it should have been advertised as such.
When I was 11 I wrote and had a short story about time travel published in a local newspaper.
When I read this book it made me think that the 13yr old me would have written this book.
It’s naive, stilted, with ridiculous dialogue that betrays the amateurish writing (almost nobody “proffers” and if they did they would do it multiple times in one book!).
A vague, undefined initial premise developed into an overly complex plot, made worse by the obvious desire of the author to make this an example of feminist literature. All she succeeded in doing was creating a rambling mess that used childish contrived plot devices to create a story that couldn’t stand up for itself.
If you want feminist literature, write a good story and populate it appropriately with strong female characters - among a complete cast, not as the ONLY characters. Otherwise the suggestion you create is that female characters can only be strong and real if there are no men in the story.
Awful. Avoid.
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