A spell-binding tale of time travel and true love that will appeal to fans of THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE and THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI.A spell-binding tale of time travel and true love that will appeal to fans of THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE and THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI.Would you give up the love of your life, on the advice of a stranger?When our hero meets Q, one Monday morning at a cinema in New York City, he has met the love of his life. Their romance quickly blossoms: in the rowboats of Central Park, on the miniature golf course of Lower Manhattan, under a pear tree in Q’s inner-city Eden. Nothing, it seems, can disturb the lovers or prevent their approaching wedding.Until one day a man claiming to be our hero’s future self tells him he must leave Q…‘Imagine The Time Traveller's Wife rewritten by Woody Allen and you'll have some idea of Q's quirky appeal’ Patrick GaleWould you give up the love of your life on the advice of a stranger?When our hero – an unacclaimed writer, unorthodox professor and unmistakeable New Yorker – first meets Q, he knows he has found his one everlasting love. Over the following weeks, in the rowboats of Central Park, on the miniature golf courses of Lower Manhattan, under a pear tree in Q’s own inner-city Eden, their miraculous romance blossoms.Nothing, it seems, can disturb the lovers, or prevent their approaching wedding.Until one day, a man claiming to be our hero’s future self, tells him he must leave Q…‘Imagine THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE rewritten by Woody Allen and you'll have some idea of Q's quirky appeal’ Patrick Gale, author of NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION‘A quirky tale but at its heart an epic romance’ MARIE CLAIRE‘A word to the tear prone: don’t attempt to read the ending in public’ NEW YORK TIMES‘A poignant exploration of the roads not taken’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘A poignant, often hilarious, consideration of our universal curse of second guessing…It will take a reader with a very hard-heart not to be moved by Q’ SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW‘Evan Mandery writes with elegance and humour’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTEvan Mandery is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He is the author of two works of non-fiction and two previous novels, ‘Dreaming of Gwen Stefani’ and ‘First Contact’.www.evanmandery.com• A wonderfully unconventional retelling of the classic love story.• A witty, beautiful novel that will appeal to fans of THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE and THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI.• Q has been optioned by Columbia Pictures and the film adaption, described as ‘“It’s A Wonderful Life” with a combination of romance, comedy and drama’, will be directed by David Gordon Green (’Pineapple Express’) and produced by Matt Tolmach and Pouya Shahbazian.Competition: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
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