Clementine inherits her aunt's apartment and finds a stranger living in it -- a man who exists seven years in the past and is about to become someone she will lose.
About This Book
A grief-stricken young book publicist inherits the fashionable Manhattan apartment of her beloved, adventurous late aunt, who always insisted the place was magic, a spot where time pinched in on itself, and warned her never to fall in love within its walls, and one day the apartment proves the warning true when she comes home to find a charming aspiring chef living there, seven years in the past, and against all sense the two begin to fall for each other across the gap of time. Poston writes a tender, magic-infused contemporary romance that weaves together grief, second chances, and the courage to want a bigger life, following the buttoned-up heroine as the warm, food-loving man from the past coaxes her out of her careful routine, even as the apartment's unpredictable slips mean she can never be sure when, or whether, she will see him again. The tone is bittersweet and gently whimsical, its time-slip conceit serving a story about mourning and daring to open your heart. This suits readers who want an emotional, magical-realist romance about love, loss, and living fully, with a dreamy New York setting. It fits less well anyone wanting realism or a fast plot, since the premise is fanciful and the pace reflective. The detail that the heroine falls for a man who exists seven years in the past, in an apartment where time folds, gives the book its poignant and original premise. Tender, whimsical, and moving, it rewards readers who love romance with heart. Those wanting grounding may find it fanciful, but its blend of grief and magic is exactly what makes it affecting.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to feel something deeply, books that stay with you long after the last page. The prose is accessible: you can read this quickly and it never asks too much of you. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. If you prefer to read at arm's length, this one may get too close.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something moving and emotionally resonant, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
The Seven Year Slip explores love in its most complicated forms, loss and what remains after it, and identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.
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