This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

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Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have figured it all out by now - her relationship, her job, her life. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard Stern, an eccentric novelist whose single bestseller set the pair of them up for life - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again.

When she falls asleep outside their old apartment the night before her fortieth birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood...

Alice soon discovers how she got back here, and realises she can keep on coming. But faced each time with different versions on her life, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most...

This Time Tomorrow is a fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and anticipation, and how easily life could have turned out differently. It reminds us of the importance of cherishing what we have, while there's still time.