Space Hopper

Faye lost her mother as a child, and then finds a way back to the years she can barely remember. Helen Fisher's debut places a time-slip premise inside an ordinary family story, so the strangeness stays domestic rather than technical. Questions about memory, loss and what a daughter owes the past drive the plot forward, and the warmth of the writing keeps the grief from turning the novel bleak. In short: • A debut novel mixing family drama with a time-slip element • A mother and daughter relationship at the story's centre • Themes of grief, memory and long unanswered questions • Discussion material that works particularly well for reading groups For readers of uplifting literary fiction, book clubs and anyone who likes a speculative turn inside a realistic setting, carried by Boipoka.