Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year of What If: the brand new uplifting and heart-warming escapist novel for 2025!

*** Pre-order THE TIME HOP COFFEE SHOP, the uplifting new novel from Phaedra Patrick, now! *** "An escapist romp that offers it all: a European vacation, an unsolved mystery, and a whole lot of love" - Christina Lauren *** Can the future be rewritten? On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows shes finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and shes confident that, together, they will dispel an old family curse claiming Carter women are unlucky in love. But Carlas highly superstitious family insists she visit a fortune teller before her big day, and the tarot cards reveal that a different man holds the key to Carlas happiness someone she met while travelling during a gap year, twenty-one years ago. This startling information spurs Carla to trace and revisit the ex-boyfriends she met during that time before she walks down the aisle. From Barcelona to Amsterdam, Turkey to Paris, will Carla find her perfect match? And can a face from her past help Carla rewrite her entire family history, forever? *** PRAISE FOR PHAEDRA PATRICK: A feel-good story with oodles of charm Daily Mail A balm for the soul and the heart Sun A gorgeous journey Heat 'The perfect book to read when you want to give your heart a holiday' Sally Page