Come Again
- 29 Apr 2021
- 9781786890153
- £8.99
- 304 pp
- 129×198mm
- 23 Apr 2020
- 9781786890146
- £7.19
- 304 pp
In a few words
The debut novel – a time-travelling story of love and adventure – from the number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy and star of Peep Show
In a few words
The debut novel – a time-travelling story of love and adventure – from the number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy and star of Peep Show
A genre-defying time-travel tale – part adventure, part love story, part comedy, part dissertation on bereavement . . . a breathtakingly insightful evocation of grief
Takes a familiar what-if scenario and invests it with heart and nostalgia . . . Hugely moving . . . Webb's memoir, How Not To Be a Boy, was a genuinely smart and affecting read; here, he proves that he can write about others as well as he writes about himself
A genre-defying time-travel tale – part adventure, part love story, part comedy, part dissertation on bereavement . . . a breathtakingly insightful evocation of grief
Takes a familiar what-if scenario and invests it with heart and nostalgia . . . Hugely moving . . . Webb's memoir, How Not To Be a Boy, was a genuinely smart and affecting read; here, he proves that he can write about others as well as he writes about himself
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The debut novel – a time-travelling story of love and adventure – from the number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy and star of Peep Show
‘Part adventure, part love story, part comedy’ Sunday Times
‘Fabulously Nineties and enjoyable’ Daily Mail
First Love. Second Time Lucky.
All hell has broken loose in Kate Marsden’s life. Her husband has died, she’s lost her job and now she’s pushed the last of her friends away. Then one day, she wakes up in the wrong body – and the wrong year. She’s eighteen again and it’s her first day of university. Which means today’s the day she’ll meet Luke, her future husband, for the first time.
If they can fall in love again, Kate might just be able to save him second time around.
More about
the book
‘Part adventure, part love story, part comedy’ Sunday Times
‘Fabulously Nineties and enjoyable’ Daily Mail
First Love. Second Time Lucky.
All hell has broken loose in Kate Marsden’s life. Her husband has died, she’s lost her job and now she’s pushed the last of her friends away. Then one day, she wakes up in the wrong body – and the wrong year. She’s eighteen again and it’s her first day of university. Which means today’s the day she’ll meet Luke, her future husband, for the first time.
If they can fall in love again, Kate might just be able to save him second time around.
Webb’s first book, the memoir How Not To Be a Boy, established that as well as being funny on the telly he could write both sensitively and well. His first novel confirms it: it’s well-paced, nicely written and highly entertaining . . . in parts very poignant
Splendidly bleak, fabulously Nineties and enjoyable
Robert Webb's effortlessly enjoyable debut novel is soaked in and a wry comment on nostalgia . . . his execution is smart, unexpected and full of pop cultural nous. It's also a ripping adventure yarn . . . Tender, thoughtful and terrific fun
[Webb] has a clean, affable style that fits itself around the comedy and tension that the story needs at different points . . . God knows we need a bit of a laugh and a thrill these days, books like this that are driven firmly by characters, setting and story
Well-paced, nicely written and highly entertaining . . . in parts very poignant
Splendidly bleak, fabulously Nineties and enjoyable
Robert Webb's effortlessly enjoyable debut novel is soaked in and a wry comment on nostalgia . . . his execution is smart, unexpected and full of pop cultural nous. It's also a ripping adventure yarn . . . Tender, thoughtful and terrific fun
[Webb] has a clean, affable style that fits itself around the comedy and tension that the story needs at different points . . . God knows we need a bit of a laugh and a thrill these days, books like this that are driven firmly by characters, setting and story
Robert Webb
View profileRobert Webb is best known for his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. In 2017, his call-to-arms memoir How Not To Be a Boy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters. Come Again is his first novel. He will appear as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.
@arobertwebb
Robert Webb
View profileRobert Webb is best known for his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. In 2017, his call-to-arms memoir How Not To Be a Boy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters. Come Again is his first novel. He will appear as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.
@arobertwebb
