A Time to Change: A heart-wrenching love story“I would rather love passionately for an hour than benignly for a lifetime.”In a house full of history and secrets, the past will not stay where it belongs… Mandevilles, inspired her dream to become a history teacher. But in her late twenties, and working in a shop to pay off student debts, life is passing her by.
That changes when a family disaster sends Lou’s life into a downward spiral and she seeks comfort in the ruined corridors of Hill House. The house transforms around her and Lou is transported back to Christmas 1913. Convinced she has been in an accident and is in a coma, Lou immerses herself in her Edwardian dream. With the Mandevilles oblivious to her true identity, Lou becomes their houseguest and befriends the eldest son, Captain Thomas Mandeville, a man she knows is destined to die in the First World War.
Lou feels more at home in the past than the present and when she realises the experience is real she sets out to do everything in her power to save her new friends.
Lou passes between 1913 and 2013, unearthing plots of murder and blackmail, which she must stop no matter the cost.
On her quest to save the Mandevilles by saving Thomas, Lou will face the hardest decision of her life. She will learn that love cannot be separated by a century.
A Time to Change is a beautifully written and utterly compelling time slip romance novel
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Imagine slipping back in time to the era of Downton Abbey. That’s what happens to Louise, a 21st Century woman who has just experienced the biggest tragedy of her life. In the past she has a chance to heal, while making friends and falling in love with people long dead in her own time.
The author does an excellent job of making the reader experience the past. Some events were predictable, while other twists were unexpected. The pacing is slow, just as the pace of life in the Edwardian era was slower than ours. That’s part of its charm. The ending isn’t what some readers will expect, but it makes sense and I found it emotionally satisfying.
The only time slip story I’ve ever read is The Time Traveller’s Wife and, whilst I know many love it, it really wasn’t for me. It did make me reluctant to look at another time slip story but a friend recommended this and I’m really glad I gave the genre a chance.
When Louisa’s mum is tragically killed, her world falls apart, not that it was exactly a bed of roses in the first place. In a rundown town with few prospects, a place of comfort for her has always been Hill House. Once a grand manor house, it’s now as unloved as the rest of the town, but she still feels an affinity with the house, captivated by its history. When it all gets too much, she seeks solace in the derelict house. And then things start to become a little peculiar when she wanders downstairs and steps back into the past.
This is a great story of trying to save the former residents of Hill House from their downfall, whilst struggling with her own life in the present. Highly recommended.
It is rare that a book will bring tears to my eyes – but this book did. I loved the characters and how they grow. You will not be disappointed in this book.
Wow what can I say. 1st of all I love time travel books, I must have over 100 in my kindle. Most of them are the same girl/ guy fall through time. In this story the Main character is a house. Lou (heroine ) loved the house since she was small & played hide in go seek with her brother. When she needed help the house let her in and she in turn help & loved those in the house. This story could continue. I would love to see it. thank you for a great story
Great story that provides some changes and twists to the typical time traveler books.
Lou was allowed to run back and forth in and out of the Victorian era into modern London with no problems except to her nerves. I wanted her to stay in Hill House forever after she had a romantic evening with Tom, telling him everything. Of course I didn’t write the book but mostly, I liked it.
An ok story and a character I wanted to like but this is foremost a story about political correctness under the cover of a period romance. Even though I agree with many of the authors points, she is a bit too preachy to the point where it gets in the way of the story. Sort of like Hollywood always preaching diversity, political correctness and women’s rights, while they abuse woman behind closed doors and look the other way when any in the press abuse all women who don’t fit their liberal bias.
It was so seamlessly written. I loved it!!
I enjoy Time Travel type reading. This was a wonderful book to sit back and relax with.
boring
Great story. Not the same old time travel read.