A re-read of an old favourite, now in ebook format. It holds up surprisingly well. It’s the story of a man who finds a way of moving to a parallel timeline.

In his own timeline, his wife was raped and murdered in a park after he allows her to walk home alone after an argument. Some years later, obsessed with guilt, he finds a way to go back in time and shoot the rapist before he assaults his wife. But then he’s drawn back to his own timeline. It takes him more years still to learn how to cross over and stay in the timeline in which she is still alive. Shaw cleverly studies what might happen when the man tries to take over the life still inhabited by his alternate self. ( )

Interesting and quirky tale. ( )

read this twice; good but not great parallel universe/time travel story ( )

Funny how the Pan UK paperback cover appears to depict the 1970s BBC Children's TV presenter Mike Rodd... ( )