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This is the dumbest book I have ever read. I love Rowan Coleman's books normally, but this one did not make a bit of sense. When she first met with the attorney and her mother's sister, her mother's sister confirmed that the priest was her father. So how did that change to be the attorney? And, please, time travel is silly enough, but to make your readers think that even with a different father you remain yourself, just different colored eyes? Ms. Coleman should have first read Diana Gabaldon's books to see how to properly do time travel and maybe a little more research into genetics. A total waste of my time!


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The Summer of Impossible Things An uplifting emotional story as seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club Rowan Coleman 9781785032417 Books Reviews

By Becky Gulc

Rowan Coleman is one of my favourite authors and I would encourage anyone who hasn’t read any of her books to hunt one down, you won’t be disappointed. However, I have to admit that the premise of this one didn’t initially appeal to me, a book involving time travel isn’t one I’d usually gravitate towards but knowing what a fantastic writer Rowan is I was still hopeful I’d enjoy this book.

Well I’m a bit of a time travel convert after reading this. The writing is elegant, the story is sophisticated and the settings are atmospheric. Perhaps most importantly, and this must be hard to pull off, it all felt believable so I soon became immersed in it. I felt so much for this family, wonderful three-dimensional characters which the narrative helped us to get to know in the past and present, how one horrible experience and how this is responded to by those who know about it can change a person, change not only their path but their future children’s too.

Throughout the novel Luna is able to travel back in time to the week that changed her mother’s life. Each time she gets closer to the pivotal day, wondering if and how she can change events and what it will mean for the present day. With each visit Luna is also forming friendships, with her mother when she was younger as well as Michael one of her friends. Each visit was moving given the context we are given as readers to the present-day situation.

I felt like I was with Luna every step of the way, feeling her emotions, seeing the things she was seeing – I am a big fan of Saturday Night Fever so loved the link with this film. The book grew in tension the closer Luna gets to the day in question and I really wondered how it would all end with a big twist turning everything on its head for Luna and the reader.

I just loved this book my only criticism is of myself as a reader really, with the twist at the end. I ended up overanalyzing it and going back to re-read certain parts and it left me with a couple of queries about it all fitting together – I’m sure they did but it did kind of spoil my enjoyment of the ending as much so I wish I’d just accepted it!

Overall another brilliant book from Rowan and I hope to see a film version one day!
I stayed up all night reading this 424-page novel because I was so drawn into the story that I could not put it down. The basic premise is that a young woman named Luna, who lives in England and works as a physicist, loses her mother to suicide. Before she and her sister Pia travel to Brooklyn, New York, to settle the estate, Luna views footage from a film their mother made as a goodbye. In this footage, the mother alludes to a terrible event from the past, and reveals that the man Luna always knew as her dad is not her biological father. The footage ends with the cryptic words "If you look very hard you will find me in Brooklyn.....if you want to look after you know what I did....He wouldn't let me go, you see. Find me...please."

Luna senses a deep dread and a primal knowledge upon hearing this message. Her fear stems from the fact that she has been experiencing intermittent flashes and odd, disorienting episodes that suggest that she may have the ability to travel back in time. In fact, as soon as Luna and Pia are in Brooklyn, Luna has the same strange, familiar flashes, which intensify as she approaches the building where their mother once lived. She hears the song "Hotel California" coming from her mother's building. There she encounters unusual furnishings and a group of young people in late 70s attire, and she realizes that she has landed in 1977. She is stunned to discover that the woman she sees sitting on the back of a brown sofa is her mother. When their eyes meet. Luna sees that her mother, Marissa ("Rissa"), is free-spirited and lighthearted, unlike anything Luna remembers from her late mother's affect. This makes it immediately clear to Luna that Rissa has not yet experienced the trauma that altered her personality and evenually drove her to kill herself. It is obvious to the reader that whatever happened to Rissa resulted in Luna's conception. (A major hint is disclosed early on Luna is the only member of her family with blue eyes).

When Luna and Pia meet the lawyer who is handling the estate and the sale of their mother's building, they are given a box labeled "To My Daughters" in their mother's handwriting. It contains four reels of Super-Eight film, a projector and a battery pack. When the sisters watch the first film, they see their mother and hear her tell them the story of what happened to her in 1977 that destroyed her life. Now knowing the truth, a horrified Luna resolves to rewrite time in order to save Rissa from the experience that drove her to take her own life in middle age, even though this will eradicate Luna's very existence.

Luna discovers the identity of her birth father. She travels back to 1977 several times; inevitably she and Rissa are drawn together and bond. This strengthens Luna's determination to find her birth father and prevent Rissa from ever meeting him. The blue-eyed man revealed as her father comes as a shock to the reader - at least to me. At this point, I was unable to stop reading.

Each time Luna goes back in time, something is altered about the past. (This is reminiscent of Stephen King's 11/22/63). I won't reveal any more of the details; suffice to say that Luna falls in love with one of her mother's male friends from the past, and she encounters older versions of these individuals when she is in the present time. Just when everything seems to fall into place, a shocking twist occurs, and the book's resolution left me reeling.

I will admit that even though I caught some hints early on, I was so drawn into the story that I suspended my imagination and went for the ride. I'm glad I did, and even happier that I didn't glance ahead (as I often do) to see how things would end.

The odd thing about this book is that it came out this past summer, and I was unable to buy it on ; I had to get it from England. I am still pondering this. I am also eager for the movie that I hope will follow. This is by far the best book I have read in 2017; I will add that I've already read Rowan Coleman's earlier books and was already enchanted by her writing. This book will resonate with anyone who loved The Time Traveler's Wife and 11/22/63. I am looking for more of Rowan Coleman's work; needless to say, I highly recommmend this novel!
This is the dumbest book I have ever read. I love Rowan Coleman's books normally, but this one did not make a bit of sense. When she first met with the attorney and her mother's sister, her mother's sister confirmed that the priest was her father. So how did that change to be the attorney? And, please, time travel is silly enough, but to make your readers think that even with a different father you remain yourself, just different colored eyes? Ms. Coleman should have first read Diana Gabaldon's books to see how to properly do time travel and maybe a little more research into genetics. A total waste of my time!