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1967.
Four female scientists invent a time travel machine. But then one of them suffers a breakdown and puts the whole project in peril...
2017.
Ruby knows her Granny Bee was the scientist who went mad, but they never talk about it. Until they receive a message from the future, warning of an elderly woman's violent death...
2018.
Odette found the dead women at work - shot in the head, door bolted from the inside. Now she can't get her out of her mind. Who was she? And why is everyone determined to cover up her murder?
'A page-turning temporal safari. Part murder mystery, part extrapolation of a world in which time travel has become a commercial reality, it is written with an acute sense of psychological nuance' GUARDIAN.
'Intriguing and multi-layered' DAILY MAIL.
'Captivating, delightful and thoroughly original' JENNIE MELAMED.
'Troubling and inspiring, comforting and horrifying' SCIFINOW.
About the author
Kate Mascarenhas is a part-Irish, part-Seychellois midlander. Since 2017, Kate has been a chartered psychologist. Before that she worked as a copywriter, a dolls' house maker, and a bookbinder. She lives in the Midlands with her husband in a small terraced house which she is slowly filling with Sindy dolls. She is the author of three novels, The Psychology of Time Travel, The Thief on the Winged Horse and Hokey Pokey.
Summary
A time travel murder mystery, set in a female-centric alternate world.
Foreword
A time travel murder mystery from a brilliantly original new voice.
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This acclaimed debut starts with four women inventing time travel in the 1960s and quickly becomes a page-turning temporal safari. Part murder mystery, part extrapolation of a world in which time travel has become a commercial reality, it is written with an acute sense of psychological nuance' Guardian.
Report
'Witty, inventive and unflashily wise about human hearts; Mascarenhas's future promises to be an exciting one' Guardian
