The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

By Scott Wilbanks

Book Overview

Annabelle Aster doesn't bow to convention--not even that of space and time--which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds.

Annie and Elsbeth's search for an explanation to the hiccup in the universe linking their homes leads to an unsettling discovery--and potential disaster for both of them. Together they must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen...and yet somehow already did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492612464
• ISBN13: 9781492612469
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great premise, poor delivery

I wanted to like this, and it might have worked as a short story, but.... where do I start? Characters are two dimensional and badly drawn, dialogue is stilted, the premise of time travel has just never been made so boring. I almost never leave a book unfinished and I just couldn't finish this one. If you want some truly masterful time travel stories, find "I Love Galesburg in the Springtime" or "The Third Level" by Jack Finney, and leave this one on the shelf at the library.