Successful author Celia Cavalotti is still mourning the death of her favorite teacher, who died in a car crash in 1989. But when a car crash of her own hurtles her back in time to the week of his death, she finally has a chance to set things right.
Finding herself in the 1980s is a shock to the extremely modern Celia– but even more shocking is seeing her dead English teacher, Alan Forrest, alive before her very eyes. Alan is far more handsome than she remembers, and she can’t resist the urge to flirt. After all, they have so much in common, like writing and a shared love of science fiction. Celia knows she’s falling in love with him– but can she use this opportunity to prevent his tragic death? What is happening to her? And why can’t she seem to stay in one place and time?
A Question of Time is being published by Champagne Books in November 2012. Here’s what Lora Innes, author and creator of the critically acclaimed comic, “The Dreamer,” has to say about it:
“When I came to A Question of Time, I knew Joanne Renaud only as the illustrator with an eye for historic detailing—I was delighted to see her love for historical accuracy translated into her writing as well. I had only meant to read a page or two, but I was quickly swept back into the eighties. Before I knew it, I had read half of the story (and was nearly late to work)! Ms. Renaud creates a vivid world, full of all the small (and hilarious!) details we forget to remember, which serve as the perfect backdrop to this fresh time-travel romance with an unexpected ending. It takes a creative mind to make the eighties seem exotic and other-worldly, but she pulls it off without a hitch.”