The Seven Year Slip
Clementine West is doing just fine, thank you very much. After the worst day of her life six months ago, she built herself a quiet fortress: stay occupied, work hard, take no chances. It's been holding up nicely. Then a stranger appears in her kitchen. He's got kind eyes, a lopsided smile, and an apparently excellent lemon meringue pie recipe. He's the sort of person she might once have fallen for without a second thought. There's just one problem. He's living seven years in the past. He shouldn't exist in her present at all, and yet, there he is. Clementine once had a soft spot for impossible things. This novel asks, gently but persistently, whether she might find her way back to that version of herself. The central idea is both whimsical and surprisingly affecting: love isn't about how much time you have, but about whether the timing ever lines up at all. Poston handles the magical realism with a light touch, letting the emotional weight do the heavy lifting rather than leaning on the fantastical premise as a crutch. It's romantic without being saccharine, and quietly moving in ways you won't entirely see coming. Ali Hazelwood called it 'breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy', while Carley Fortune praised Poston as one of the finest writers working in romance today. Warm, inventive, and genuinely touching.
- Author: Ashley Poston
- Publisher: HQ
- Genre: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0008566593
- Pages: 352 pages