AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK FOR LITERATURE AND FICTION
'The Day Tripper is absolutely astonishing, from first page to last. Warm, clever, hopeful, and superbly written. James Goodhand is a brilliant storyteller at the top of his game. I adored it.' - Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a place at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames.
He wakes the next day to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognise. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he's older-much older-his features ravaged by time and poor decisions. It's 2010-fifteen years since the fight.
After finally managing to sleep, Alex wakes the following morning to find it's now 2019, another nine years later. But the next day, it's 1999. Never knowing which day is coming, he begins to piece together what happens in his life after that fateful night.
But what exactly is going on? Why does his life look nothing like he thought it would? What about Cambridge, and Holly? In this page-turning adventure, Alex must navigate his way through the years to learn that good decisions can have untold impact. And that might be all he needs to save the people he loves and, equally importantly, himself. James Goodhand has written two YA novels, published by PRH Children's Books. His debut, Last Lesson ("A powerfully charged study in empathy" -The Financial Times) was published in April 2020 and has been optioned for TV by Red Planet Pictures, with his second, Man Down, in March this year. The Day Tripper is his first work of adult fiction. After a near-death incident, Alex wakes up in the future and discovers his life has fallen apart. Each day brings a new alternate life for him - but can he work his way back to the life, and the love, he lost? Perennial theme of time travel and second chances - if given the chance, what would you do differently? James Goodhand's novel LAST LESSON is being adapted for television, and THE DAY TRIPPER has great film/TV potential as well. THE DAY TRIPPER is a moving, life-affirming novel in the vein of ONE DAY and THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE that will appeal to book club readers.
