The Seven Year Slip

Genre

Romance & Contemporary Relationships

Publisher

Berkley (Penguin Random House)

Publication year

2023

ISBN

9780593336502

Grieving book publicist Clementine discovers that her late aunt's Manhattan apartment sometimes slips seven years into the past. There she meets Iwan, a charming aspiring chef living in the apartment in another time, and falls for a man she may be unable to keep. Ashley Poston's magical-realist...

Clementine has inherited her beloved late aunt's Manhattan apartment and, with it, a strange family secret: sometimes the apartment slips seven years into the past. On one such slip she meets Iwan, a warm, ambitious aspiring chef who lives there in an earlier time, and against her grief-guarded better judgment she falls for a man separated from her by years she cannot cross. Ashley Poston follows her bestselling The Dead Romantics with another tender magical-realist romance, using a light speculative conceit to explore mourning, the fear of moving on, and whether love glimpsed at the wrong moment can ever find its time. Poston writes soft, wistful, food-scented prose and lets the melancholy give the sweetness weight. It is a gentle, bittersweet love story more interested in feeling than in the mechanics of its time-slip. For readers who want an emotional, atmospheric romance with a touch of the uncanny - grief and hope in equal measure - this best-of-2023 bestseller is a quietly lovely choice.