The Summer of Impossible Things

An epic, high concept love story about family and sacrifice from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory BookIf you could change the past, would you?As seen on ITV in The Zoe Ball Book Club'Beautiful, well-written...I got goosebumps' Alex Jones'Portrayed 1977 so brilliantly...it would make an amazing movie' Zoe Ball-----------------------------------------------How far would you go to save the person you love?Luna is about to do everything she can to save her mother's life.Even if it means sacrificing her own.A beautiful novel about family, courage, sacrifice and love in all its guises from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book-----------------------------------------------With over 150 5* reviews, this is what readers are saying about this irresistible page-turner-'Best book of the year for me''It's a poignant but ultimately life-affirming journey''A wonderful novel, full of love and friendship and vitality''This story was magical and I loved it''Truly outstanding storytelling''A book that really stayed with me'

“It feels like a long time since I loved a book as much. I was CAPTIVATED ! Brilliant, different... charming and moving ...I stayed up half the night to finish it”

It feels like a long time since I loved a book as much. I was CAPTIVATED! Brilliant, different...charming and moving...I stayed up half the night to finish it -- Marian Keyes Sunday Times bestselling author of The Break
An emotional, uplifting page-turner that highlights the questions we so often ask ourselves. One of the great reads of the summer Stylist
A truly wonderful and magical story. I absolutely loved it - a gorgeous book. -- Milly Johnson Sunday Times bestselling author of The Queen of Wishful Thinking
An emotional roller coaster that will floor you with its depth and believability Fabulous Magazine, The Sun
A gorgeous, rapturous novel, intensely atmospheric...a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of a daughter’s love for her mother. Like all Rowan’s novels, it’s life-affirming and shows the best of what humans can be; I felt that the world was a better place when I put it down. As a novel about impossible things, it made me think that anything was possible. -- Julie Cohen bestselling author of Together
The Time Traveler’s Wife meets Sophie’s Choice... wonderfully atmospheric... Perfect summer reading, be it on a sunlounger or sofa. The Pool
Beautiful...well-written...I got goosebumps -- Alex Jones, on The Zoe Ball Book CLub
A tear-jerking, time travelling epic... Red Magazine
Portrayed 1977 so brilliantly...it would make an amazing movie -- Zoe Ball, on The Zoe Ball Book Club
An absolute triumph...loved it. So clever...such a brilliant writer -- Jill Mansell bestselling author of This Could Change Everything
A book that defies reality and makes your heart sing...Rowan Coleman is one of those writers I will follow anywhere. I know however unlikely the story she will never lead me astray. -- Katie Fforde Sunday Times bestselling author of A Secret Garden
hugely inventive and evocative...achingly romantic Heat Magazine

Rowan Coleman lives with her husband and five children in a very full house in Hertfordshire. She juggles writing novels with raising her family. She longs to live at Ponden Hall.She is the bestselling author of THE MEMORY BOOK, WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS and the critically acclaimed THE SUMMER OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS.Find out more about Rowan at , Facebook or Twitter- @rowancoleman.

If you could change the past, would you? Thirty years ago, something terrible happened to Luna's mother. Something she's only prepared to reveal after her death. Now Luna and her sister have a chance to go back to their mother's birthplace and settle her affairs. But in Brooklyn they find more questions than answers, until something impossible - magical - happens to Luna, and she meets her mother as a young woman back in the summer of 1977. At first Luna's thinks she's going crazy, but if she can truly travel back in time, she can change things. But in doing anything - everything - to save her mother's life, will she have to sacrifice her own?

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