Books - Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

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Mount TBR so far = 3/24

I suppose if you'd asked me before, I'd have said a time machine might look something like a submariine? Or perhaps a space rocket. Instead I'm looking at a laptop and a tin tub from a garden centre. This is my dad's time machine. And it's about to change the world. Well, mine, at any rate.

Al Chaudhury has a chance to save his dad's life - but to do it he must travel to 1984...

I am so good at choosing books to read this year! Okay, well last year actually, which was when I bought this one (which means it qualifies for Mount TBR as well as fitting my bingo card). Time Travelling with a Hamster is the first book I've read this year by a male author, and it's another blinder. In theory it's a children's book, and Al is in fact twelve years old, but it's one of those books that are really ageless. The characters are all excellently drawn and real, Al is fab, as are his dads and granddads in particular, and there was a fab feel of the north-east of England too, which is where this is set. It makes a nice change to feel the region even though it's just background, too - that can be missing from English books. It's a cracking story too - I won't spoil it for you, but absolutely, definitely worth a read if you see it around!

And whee - I have two squares marked in the same row, and actually the book I'm reading now also fits that row, so... well we'll see what happens. *g*

Booklist 2019
1. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (bookgroup)
2. You take the Hippy, I'll take Goldilocks by Gil Hale (fanfic re-read)
3. In a Land of Shadows by Gil Hale (fanfic re-read)
4. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham (MountTBR, LjBookBingo)
5. A Walk on the Beach by E.T. (fanfic re-read)
6. Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder (Mount TBR, LjBookBingo)
7. November by Sebastian (fanfic re-read)
8. Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford (Mount TBR, LjBookBingo)