The Time Hop Coffee Shop

 The Time Hop Coffee Shop

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       September 29, 2025

 

Author  Phaedra Patrick

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-0778310907
Publisher:         Bloomsbury Publishing UK. Imprint Aria.
Release Date:   September 2025  

   Website:   https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/time-hop-coffee-shop-9781035914821

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The Time Hop Coffee Shop is a novel with a considerable difference as it uses the ‘be careful what you wish for’ analogy to set the plot between the perfect past and the reality of the everyday present.

Greta Perks life is in a terrible mess and no matter what she tries to do about it nothing works. Once the star of the Maple Gold Coffee commercials, she was a woman used to living the dream with a handsome husband and talented young daughter, until it was time to modernise, upgrade and replace their entire family with other people.

She is on a trial separation from her husband, and her daughter is resentful of being driven to do anything she does not want to do. Work has dried up and life is drab, dull, and depressing. Her once glittering career is over!

After an eventful and disastrous evening presenting a talk at a local Café, she is handed a small leaflet about the Time Hop Coffee Shop and decides to investigate what this mysterious place is really offering; in doing so she is delivered into the world of Mapleville, a place where everything is always perfect, just like the world created in the coffee commercials.

This timeslip offers Greta a second chance at what she believes she wants, but she is eventually forced to decide; to let the past and all its shining glory go and grab the present with both hands enjoying life for what has to offer.

Couched within the storyline is a lovely lesson on life, living and accepting delivered in the third person although the overall tone of what looked to be a quirky take on life, failed to deliver.

Fiction, General