"It feels like a long time since I loved a book as much. I was CAPTIVATED! Brilliant, different...charming and moving...I stayed up half the night to finish it" -- Marian Keyes * Sunday Times bestselling author of The Break *
"An emotional, uplifting page-turner that highlights the questions we so often ask ourselves. One of the great reads of the summer " * Stylist *
"This epic love story is reminiscent of The Time Traveler's Wife...beautifully written" * Daily Mail *
"A truly wonderful and magical story. I absolutely loved it - a gorgeous book." -- Milly Johnson * Sunday Times bestselling author of The Queen of Wishful Thinking *
"An emotional roller coaster that will floor you with its depth and believability" * Fabulous Magazine, The Sun *
"A gorgeous, rapturous novel, intensely atmospheric...a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of a daughter's love for her mother. Like all Rowan's novels, it's life-affirming and shows the best of what humans can be; I felt that the world was a better place when I put it down. As a novel about impossible things, it made me think that anything was possible." -- Julie Cohen * bestselling author of Together *
"The Time Traveler's Wife meets Sophie's Choice... wonderfully atmospheric... Perfect summer reading, be it on a sunlounger or sofa." * The Pool *
"Beautiful...well-written...I got goosebumps" -- Alex Jones, on The Zoe Ball Book CLub
"A tear-jerking, time travelling epic..." * Red Magazine *
"Portrayed 1977 so brilliantly...it would make an amazing movie" -- Zoe Ball, on The Zoe Ball Book Club
"An absolute triumph...loved it. So clever...such a brilliant writer" -- Jill Mansell * bestselling author of This Could Change Everything *
"A book that defies reality and makes your heart sing...Rowan Coleman is one of those writers I will follow anywhere. I know however unlikely the story she will never lead me astray." -- Katie Fforde * Sunday Times bestselling author of A Secret Garden *
"hugely inventive and evocative...achingly romantic" * Heat Magazine *
"Smartly crafted and sumptuously written" * Sunday Mirror *
"exhilarating, thought-provoking novel about family, grief and redemption" -- Fanny Blake * Sunday Express S Magazine *
"a lovely, magical, time-bending read...There is a lovely smooth glow to the writing" * Matt Haig *
"one of my favourite writers" * Cara Delevingne *
"an irresistible page-turner... the depiction of love seemed the most real" * Stylist Magazine *
"Smartly crafted, sumptuously written, a glorious time travelling adventure" * Sunday People *
"Spine-tinglingly beautiful. Prepare to lose your heart" * Lisa Jewell *
"gorgeous, glowing, heartbreaking and wonderful - Rowan's best novel to date" * Jenny Colgan *
"An epic, exhilarating story of bravery and redemption, where love transcends time and the impossible might just happen. Stupendous - I loved it." * Lucy Diamond *
"magical, wonderful and beautifully written" * Trisha Ashley *
"one of those captivating novels that simultaneously puts you under a spell as a reader while making you deeply, deeply envious as a writer! I've always loved Rowan's writing, and it's immediately obvious that this is something magical and new, yet with all her trademark heart." * Lucy Dillon *
"Coleman is such a beautiful writer. The Summer of Impossible Things is an emotional, intelligent, beautifully structured novel" * Alex Marwood *
"Totally charmed and moved by Rowan Coleman's The Summer of Impossible Things, a girls' own Back to the Future story set in New York" * Amanda Craig *