- Published: 29 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780241973400
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
The Trick to Time
- Published: 29 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780241973400
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
[The] ending will leave you reeling
Daily Mail
[An] emotionally sure-handed novel exploring harrowing terrain with deft sensitivity
Sunday Times
A beautifully written, exquisitely crafted story of love, grief and the quiet courage it takes to survive great loss
S Magazine
An unforgettable tale of grief and life-long love
Woman's Own
Moving and enlightening
Independent
Tender with a fierce undercurrent of tension and heartbreak
Jane Shemilt, bestselling author of 'Daughter'
The Trick to Time proves that Kit de Waal is a writer destined for even greater things
Red
The Trick to Time starts gently and ratchets up the emotional intensity until you're ugly crying into your pillow
Sunday Times
A beautiful book
Andrew Marr
A story that's full of care; even in its saddest moments it is tender and kind. It feels like a book about all the best parts of being human, about family and friendship, and the way that loss only hurts the way it does because it's grounded in love.
S K Perry
A warm and endearing book about learning to live again
Good Housekeeping
It's slight but engaging. The style is simple yet artful
Evening Standard
The "trick to time" is that it can expand or contract at will, and in creating a mature heroine with decades of history, De Waal has herself performed a feat of skilful comprehension
Guardian Review
These distillations of everyday life have all the beauty of a finely crafted life drawing
Financial Times
Weaving tragedy and joy, big themes and the minutiae of life, this is a love story to take on the classics
Emerald Street