Time and Time Again

Allan Hartley wakes up as a thirteen-year-old boy in June 1914, three weeks before the assassination in Sarajevo that will ignite the First World War. The twist: he carries every memory of his adult life, including knowledge of the war to come and all the suffering that follows. Trapped in a child's body but wielding an adult's understanding, he sets out to do the impossible: stop the war before it starts, save millions of lives, maybe even give himself a better shot at happiness. But history has momentum, and the stream of time runs deep. What follows is part adventure, part philosophical puzzle, part quiet tragedy. Piper's 1934 novel (publishedposthumously in 1975) asks the questions that haunt every time travel story: Can one person change fate, or does history bend back toward its original shape? And if you could live your life over, would you even want to?