Time After Time av Victor Watson

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<p>A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She¿s dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse.<br></p><p>In the Napoleonic period, a little boy has to walk several miles to market, on his own, for the first time.<br></p><p>In the present day, a mixed-race teenage girl ¿ along with her best friend Rob ¿ faces the difficulties of extreme shyness and mutism.<br></p><p>There is another presence too. Professor Molly Barnes ¿ an archaeologist in her eighties ¿ unwittingly presides over the narratives, looking back at her own coming-of-age, recalling her earliest memories of friendship, and questioning her own profession and its capacity to discover true versions of history.<br></p><p><em>Time After Time </em>is a coming-of-age novel, written from an adult perspective. It is set in the East Anglian countryside, and links three different stories to the archaeologica