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There’s a common problem that comes with time travel stories, usually to do with paradoxes and the author’s inability to handle them as the delicate, universe collapsing things that they are.Inevitably, time travel books are about going back and changing the past, right?
Well, not this one.
‘I don’t know.’ I think for a bit. ‘It doesn’t make sense to me, going backwards. Like, if you travel back and kill your younger self. Except now you’re dead, so there’s no future self to come back and kill you.’ Mason’s smiling by now, nodding, so I join in. ‘So now you survive, but that means you’re alive to come back and kill yourself…’
Scout is an illegal. She’s not meant to exist, because her mother wasn’t married when she gave birth, and children from single parent homes are taken away.
Scout’s mother has kept her hidden – away from security cameras, away from scanners – her entire life. They both live on half rations because Scout, of course, isn’t allotted any. But when Scout goes to her favourite hiding place after a fight with her mum, she finds a woman already there. A woman wrapped in a blanket and nothing else, a woman who’s close to death.
As the woman’s life ends, Scout finds herself presented with an opportunity well beyond anything she could have dreamed. But there’s something strange about the woman’s chip, and now there are two guys following Scout, asking her to show them how to travel through time.
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