The Forgetting Time (Paperback)
  • The Forgetting Time (Paperback)
zoom

The Forgetting Time (Paperback)

(author)
5 Reviews Sign in to write a review
£9.99
Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 01/09/2016
  • In stock

Usually dispatched within 1-2 working days

  • This item has been added to your basket

A Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Sharon Guskin's The Forgetting Time is a gripping yet heartfelt mystery and a beautiful tale of the bond between mother and child.

Noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn't and remembers things he should have forgotten. Because as well as being a four-year-old called Noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called Tommy.

He remembers his house.
His family.
His mother.

And now he wants to go home.

Two boys. Two mothers.
One unforgettable story . . .

'When I wasn't reading Sharon Guskin's The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it' – Jodi Picoult, author of Small Great Things.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509806812
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 280 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 29 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

If you took to The Lovely Bones, you'll be completely engrossed by The Forgetting Time - InStyle

When I wasn't reading The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it. Provocative, evocative, and fresh, Guskin's book is an explosive debut - Jodi Picoult

Irresistible . . . Part mystery and part meditation on a mother's love for her child, this clever, heartfelt book kept me turning pages long into the night - Kate Morton

For fans of The Lovely Bones, this psychological mystery will have you hooked until the case is closed - Cosmopolitan

A beautiful tale of the bond between a mother and her young son as well as a gripping mystery . . . Reading The Forgetting Time becomes a personal journey as you try to remember all that you've forgotten - Diane Chamberlain

Original, gripping and moving -- you'll be hooked from the start - Essentials Magazine

A truly remarkable, dizzying and exquisite page-turner - Téa Obreht

Amazing . . . An epic story about relationships - Elle

Gripping, deft and moving - New York Times

The Forgetting Time is about memory and forgetting, grieving and letting go, and the lengths a mother will go to for her child - Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Train

A magical, wise, page-turner of a novel that brings to mind the early work of Alice Hoffman. - Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion

The kind of book that will make you do a big ugly cry - Red Online

A bold, captivating debut . . . Guskin amps up the suspense while raising provovative questions about the maternal bond and its limits . . . You'll be mesmerized - People Magazine

Provocative and suspenseful - BBC.com

A spellbinding ride. Guskin's beautifully rendered and wonderfully told novel explores the mysteries of how we connect to one another in the deepest of ways. An amazing book - Mary Morris, author of The Jazz Palace

A cracking read - Prima

Readers will be galvanized by Guskin's sharply realized and sympathetic characters with all their complications, contradictions, failures, sorrows, and hope. - Booklist

Captivating - Book of the Month, Candis

A near perfect book club read. It has the essential ingredient: a controversial theme guaranteed to provoke discussion among readers (a trait it shares with Jodi Picoult's bestsellers) - The Bookseller

A compelling, dynamic, and intriguing debut novel - American Booksellers Association

Like Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, at its core it really is just superb fiction - The Herald

You may also be interested in...

Butter
Added to basket
Paperback
£14.99
The Vegetarian
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99
How To Solve Your Own Murder
Added to basket
Intermezzo
Added to basket
Hardback
£20.00 £16.99
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Added to basket
The Last Devil To Die
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
Kala
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
The Bee Sting
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Added to basket
The Exchange
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Figurine
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Housemaid
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Thursday Murder Club
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
Yellowface
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
Small Things Like These
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Added to basket
Nicole @WstonesHemel

“Who is Noah?”

I was sold on this thinking it would be a little like Room or The Lovely Bones but, The Forgetting time is in a class of it's own.
Form the beginning I loved Janie, who has buried her beloved mother and has... More

Hardback edition
5 similar books recommended
Helpful? Upvote 83

“Makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up”

Wow, a few days ago I debated which book I should start reading to kick start my year, I went for The Forgetting Time and I don't think I could have made a better decision.  This book is so absolutely absorbing... More

Paperback edition
Helpful? Upvote 67
Joy Finlayson

“Inspiring, unusual and a fantastic read”

Noah is four years old and the cause of much concern. He has nightmares every night, refuses to get close to water and has knowledge of subjects – Harry Potter and guns included – that are inappropriate for his age.... More

Hardback edition
Helpful? Upvote 56

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.