The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston is a magical, emotionally luminous, and breathtakingly romantic contemporary novel that beautifully explores grief, art, and the transcendent nature of timing.
Following the critical success of her breakout hit The Dead Romantics, Poston masterfully blends a classic, nostalgic rom-com charm with a whimsical, magical-realism twist to tell a story about healing a broken heart.
The story follows Clementine West, a hard-working, hyper-organized book publicist in New York City who has spent her entire life trying to be practical. Clementine is deeply mourning the sudden loss of her beloved, whimsical Aunt An表—the woman who raised her and taught her to look for magic in the ordinary.
Aunt An表 leaves Clementine her gorgeous, bohemian apartment in the city, but it comes with a strict, eccentric warning: The apartment doesn’t exist in normal time. It slips. And when it slips, you must never fall in love.
Clementine dismisses this as an endearing fairy tale until one exhausting evening, she walks into the apartment and finds a stranger standing in her kitchen.
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