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All Our Wrong Todays
Apr 29, 2025 6:06 AM

Author:Elan Mastai

All Our Wrong Todays

'A witty, time-travelling romance' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

This is a love story that could only happen because of an accident of time travel.

Tom and Penny belong to a world so perfect there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados.

But when something awful happens to Penny, and Tom tries to make it right, he accidentally destroys everything, waking up in our broken, dysfunctional world.

Only here, Penny and Tom have a second chance.

Should Tom go back to his brilliant but loveless existence, or risk everything by staying in our messy, complicated world for his one and only chance at true love?

'Thrilling and refreshingly optimistic' Andy Weir, author of The Martian

'Sharp and funny' Daily Mail

'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Jetsons' Buzzfeed

'All Our Wrong Todays is an entertaining romp that should appeal to fans The Time Traveler's Wife' The Guardian, BEST RECENT SCIENCE FICTION

Reviews

All Our Wrong Todays is an entertaining romp that should appeal to fans The Time Traveler's Wife

—— Best recent science fiction , The Guardian

Sharp, funny writing in a mind-bending, time-travelling junket of a novel

—— Daily Mail

A mind-bending time travel caper

—— Guardian

Elan Mastai manages the [time-travel] genre masterfully in his debut novel

—— Olivia Ovenden , Esquire

A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future

—— Andy Weir, author of international bestseller , The Martian

A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging.
A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart.
And a novel this smart has no right to be this funny. Or insightful. Or immersive.
Basically, this novel has no right to exist."

—— Jonathan Tropper, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You and One Last Thing Before I Go

Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty and freewheeling time-traveling romance that packs an emotional wallop. All Our Wrong Todays is a page-turning delight

—— Maria Semple, author of , Where’d You Go, Bernadette

All Our Wrong Todays is elaborately constructed and incredibly emotionally intelligent; it's a story with super high stakes that genuinely makes you feel every part of Tom's awful predicament

—— SciFiNow

Witty, original, funny, charming - a great story!

—— Joe Haddow, BBC Radio 2 Book Club

It's all very clever, but it's also not really the point. Because as well as being an intelligent sci-fi story, it's also a love story, and kind of a monomyth, and also just an incredibly relatable, insightful story about being in your 30s, feeling like you haven't achieved anything, and figuring out what's next

—— SciFiNow UK

A timeless, if mind-bending, story about the journeys we take, populated by friends, family, lovers and others, that show us who we might be, could be - and maybe never should be - that eventually leads us to who we are

—— USA Today

Mastai has a penchant for exuberant plot, a quick dash of character and fearlessly funny storytelling

—— The Washington Post

All Our Wrong Todays is the mind-bending science fiction romance you need to read

—— Mashable

This lovely new novel is It's a Wonderful Life meets The Jetsons. Tom who lives in an alternate 2016 where all the sci-fi fantasies of the 1950s are a reality, suddenly finds himself stranded in our 2016, where he rediscovers his family, friends, and self.

—— Buzzfeed

Imagine a world where 2016 was glorious: no Bowie, Brexit, Bake-Off, Bannon. That's where All Our Wrong Todays begins... Ambitious, funny, wry and philosophical, it's not surprising that author Mastai started off his life as a screenwriter (All Our Wrong Todays has already been picked up by uber-producer Amy Pascal) because this a book that has the grand scope of sweeping cinema peppered throughout

—— Emerald Street

Sharp, funny writing is married to complex plotting that whisks through various alternative realities in this mind-bending, time-travelling junket of a novel

—— Daily Mail

Wise, honest, beautifully observed. One of the few writers I'll drop anything for

—— Jojo Moyes

Straight-from-life characters, knife-sharp insight and almost unbearable suspense will have you racing through it

—— Good Housekeeping

Perfect

—— Hello!

A hell of a good book. Funny and scary

—— Stephen King

A cracking story cleverly told

—— Fabulous

Fascinating and compassionate

—— Daily Telegraph

A funny, thought-provoking, acutely observed romantic comedy

—— Marie Claire

A bittersweet tale by a gifted writer

—— Women's Weekly

Brilliant and original

—— Sun

Absolutely brilliant

—— Closer

A hilarious page-turner

—— Yours

I love Fallon, she's in a category all of her own - her books are great fun and her characters are fabulous, believable women who take no nonsense

—— Marian Keyes

The ultimate choice . . . filled with the author's signature themes, think turbulent relationships, tricky families and the need for self-belief. Keyes' [is] an international treasure

—— Stylist

Cause for celebration . . . An engrossing novel full of wit and warmth. The humour never once detracts from the emotional depth.

—— Red

Cause for jubilation . . . This proves her to be the reigning queen of British chick lit . . . insightful, funny and poignant

—— Daily Mail

Praise for Marian Keyes

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Gloriously funny

—— The Sunday Times

Funny but poignant

—— Marie Claire

A total triumph

—— Daily Mail

Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud

—— Stylist

A beautifully written modern love story from Britain's best contemporary female author

—— Sun on Sunday

Wonderfully written and completely engrossing, with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative. It will make you think long after you finish the final page

—— Daily Mail

A tender, funny and hopeful look at love, grief and life. Bumper box of tissues required

—— Stylist

A beautiful read

—— Hello

Funny, heart-warming and extremely wise

—— Prima

A deeply satisfying book full of big emotions

—— Good Housekeeping

A laugh-out-loud, rollicking good read and a very touching love story

—— Sunday Independent

Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy

—— Elle

A delight

—— The Daily Mirror

A sparkling novel of hope and sacrifice’

—— Glasgow Herald

Magical, heart-warming and time-bending story.

—— Mslexia
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