Used book – In the Fold of Time, Kate Atkinson

Haunted by the disappearance of her mother Eliza and neglected by a father who returned from the other side of the world with a new wife, Isobel Fairfax is gifted (or afflicted?) with an exceptional ability: to travel through time at will, exploring a slice of the past or opening a door to the future.

Thus, she will journey back to the time when her ancestors, contemporaries of Shakespeare, were the lords of the surrounding land, and then retrace the long decline that led to her grocer father. And to the many secrets, trivial or tragic, that are the lot of all families... Wouldn't Isobel have preferred not to know what she is destined to discover?

Following "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," winner of the Whitbread Prize in Great Britain and named "Best Novel of 1996" by Lire magazine, Kate Atkinson once again takes us on an irresistible novelistic gallop, simultaneously a family saga and a detective investigation.