Time Together

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Once they were just them. Now they're forty-something and there's kids. Whose time is this?

Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent's house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he's invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It's bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it's too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there's Annie, who will be by herself.

The story of a beach holiday told by four different people, Time Together is a novel about different kinds of love, different kinds of loneliness, and the way spending time together can bring out the best and worst in each other.

'Horton writes authentically of this intimate interplay of warring insecurities, nostalgias, and unrealised aspirations ... Cutting through this is Horton's restrained, crisp writing, so unadorned with superfluity that his simple descriptions of nature and light resonate ... a compelling rendering of personal and interpersonal tensions and the subterranean currents that shape them. Without sentimentality, Horton tenderly evokes the at times quiet, opaque nature of grief.'
-Jack Callil, The Guardian

'Time Together is a slow burn of a novel. Beautifully written and impossible to put down. I loved it.'
-Sophie Cunningham, author of This Devastating Fever

'An artful, deliciously acerbic portrait of family, friendship, and the indignities of middle age. Horton is a master of domestic unease.'
-Laura Elizabeth Woollett

ISBN:
9781761380921
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
288
Published:
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Imprint:
Scribe Publications
Weight:
356 g

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