BLOG TOUR | The Space Between Time – Charlie Laidlaw

Welcome to the month-long mega tour for Charlie Laidlaw‘s newest book, The Space Between Time, due for release on June 20th! I am so excited to be reviewing today. Be sure to follow along the on the tour because there will be fantastic bloggers participating, who will be posting interviews, excerpts, reviews, and other exclusive content!

Additionally, there are loads of goodies being given away, so be sure to enter at the bottom!

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The Space Between Time

Expected Publication Date: June 20th, 2019

Genre: Contemporary Fiction/ Drama/ Dark Comedy

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth…

Emma Maria Rossini appears to be the luckiest girl in the world. She’s the daughter of a beautiful and loving mother, and her father is one of the most famous film actors of his generation. She’s also the granddaughter of a rather eccentric and obscure Italian astrophysicist.

But as her seemingly charmed life begins to unravel, and Emma experiences love and tragedy, she ultimately finds solace in her once-derided grandfather’s Theorem on the universe.

The Space Between Time is humorous and poignant and offers the metaphor that we are all connected, even to those we have loved and not quite lost.

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Review:

Charlie Laidlaw has become one of my absolute favorite authors. His novels are always wonderfully mesmerizing and magical. As soon as the ability to read The Space Between Time was presented to me, I jumped on it. I knew this would be a 5 star read for me before I was three pages in.

I love the view points we get to read. We see Emma’s point of view as a child, which is so interesting to read because children so often see the world differently than adults. Charlie Laidlaw’s exploration into how tragedy is seen in the eyes of a child and how it forms them as they age is such a unique concept.

Charlie Laidlaw’s ability to captivate his readers in a way I can’t even describe is one of the main reasons I love his work so much. The Space Between Time is heavy at times, but as seems standard with this author, there is lightness and humor sprinkled through to give the reader a little mental break.

I can’t rave enough about The Space Between Time. It’s a book you’re not going to want to miss, regardless of the genre you normally read in. Pick this one up and experience what I can only describe as magic. This is definitely on my favorites of 2019, and it is likely making my top 5 this year.

Rating:

5/5☆

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Mum is waiting for me outside the school gates and is surrounded by several other mothers who, like hyenas, all seem to want to devour her. How do they know who she is, I wonder? They’re all talking to her at once and Mum is gamely trying to smile and engage in several simultaneous conversations. Mum, as always, looks like a million dollars. The other mothers, dressed sensibly in beige, look like loose change collected from underneath the sofa. Mum sees me and waves, extricates herself from her tormentors, and ushers me quickly towards her car which is partly parked on the pavement and mostly on a pedestrian crossing.

‘From now on, Emma,’ she immediately says, once we’re safely inside and buckling up seatbelts, and before she’s even asked me how my first day has been, ‘I will either meet you further down the road or leave you to walk home. I do not want to go through that again.’ She looks in the rear-view mirror, just in case the hyenas are snarling and whooping and giving chase.

It turns out that she’s already been asked to join the Parent-Teacher Association and, being a parent, has felt obliged to accept. But, in the mêlée outside the school, she’s also been asked to be honorary chairperson of something else, and didn’t really hear what she was being asked to be chairperson of, or if she’s said ‘yes’. It happens to her sometimes. Her mind just goes blank, thoughts and words wafting around her head and then drifting from her ears.

Mum’s worried that she might inadvertently now be in charge of the North Berwick & District Paedophile Society, or something worse. It turned out that she hadn’t said ‘yes’, but hadn’t said ‘no’ either, so the Pottery Club assumed that she meant ‘yes’, which amounts to the same thing. She did attend a couple of their throw-downs, an expression that neither of us had heard of before, coming home with a well-turned if rather wonky bowl, with only a couple of small cracks, and decorated with painted flowers nicely arranged in a vase: Mum’s presidential way of neatly killing two birds with one stone.

From then on, I generally walked home after school.

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I have 2 signed copies of The Space Between Time to giveaway, 3 fun coffee mugs featuring all 3 of Charlie Laidlaw’s books, and 3 digital copies of the book in the winner’s format of choice! Amazing right? Click the link below to enter!

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I was born in Paisley, central Scotland, which wasn’t my fault. That week, Eddie Calvert with Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra were Top of the Pops, with Oh, Mein Papa, as sung by a young German woman remembering her once-famous clown father. That gives a clue to my age, not my musical taste.

I was brought up in the west of Scotland and graduated from the University of Edinburgh. I still have the scroll, but it’s in Latin, so it could say anything.

I then worked briefly as a street actor, baby photographer, puppeteer and restaurant dogsbody before becoming a journalist. I started in Glasgow and ended up in London, covering news, features and politics. I interviewed motorbike ace Barry Sheene, Noel Edmonds threatened me with legal action and, because of a bureaucratic muddle, I was ordered out of Greece.

I then took a year to travel round the world, visiting 19 countries. Highlights included being threatened by a man with a gun in Dubai, being given an armed bodyguard by the PLO in Beirut (not the same person with a gun), and visiting Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave in Samoa. What I did for the rest of the year I can’t quite remember.

Surprisingly, I was approached by a government agency to work in intelligence, which just shows how shoddy government recruitment was back then. However, it turned out to be very boring and I don’t like vodka martini.

Craving excitement and adventure, I ended up as a PR consultant, which is the fate of all journalists who haven’t won a Pulitzer Prize, and I’ve still to listen to Oh, Mein Papa.

I am married with two grown-up children and live in central Scotland. And that’s about it.

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June 3rd
Reads & Reels (Review) http://www.readsandreels.com
The Writer’s Alley (Review) https://www.jacobrundle.com
Yearwood La Novela (Excerpt) http://yearwooddailybookreview.wordpress.com

June 4th
Tranquil Dreams (Review) http://klling.wordpress.com
Little Tinklabee (Review) https://littletinkablee.com/

Jun 5th
Jessica Belmont (Review) https://jessicabelmont.wordpress.com/

June 6th
Cup of Toast (Review) https://cupoftoast.co.uk
Gwendalyn’s Books (Review) http://gwendalynbooks.wordpress.com

June 7th
Breakeven Books (Interview) https://breakevenbooks.com

June 8th
Didi Oviatt (Excerpt) https://didioviatt.wordpress.com

June 9th
Life at 17 (Review) https://lifeat17.wordpress.com

June 10th
Where Dragons Reside (Excerpt) https://kernerangelina.live/
Inked and Blonde (Review) http://www.inkedandblondeonline.co.uk
Go By the Book (Review) http://gobythebookblog.wordpress.com
Novel Lives (Review) https://novellives.com/author/literacybatmanlives/

June 11th
Valerie’s Musings – https://valeriesmusings.com/

June 12th
Misty’s Book Space – http://mistysbookspace.wordpress.com

June 13th
Brianne’s Book Reviews (Review) http://briannesbookreviewsvideo.wordpress.com

June 14th
Love Books Group – http://lovebooksgroup.blog

June 15th
Wrong Side of Forty (Review) http://wrongsideoffortyuk.wordpress.com
The Eclectic Review – http://eclecticreview.wordpress.com

June 16th
The Bookworm Drinketh (Review) http://thebookwormdrinketh.wordpress.com/
The Reading Chemist (Review) https://thereadingchemist.com/

June 17th
Erin Decker (Excerpt) http://erindeckerblog.wordpress.com
Reading Nook (Excerpt) http://readingnook84.wordpress.com

June 18th

June 19th
Banshee Horror Blog (review) http://www.bansheeirishhorrorblog.com
The Faerie Review (Review) http://www.thefaeriereview.com

June 20th
The Magic of Wor(l)ds (Interview) http://themagicofworlds.wordpress.com

June 21st
Sawdust & Spoons (Review) http://sawdustandspoons.com/

June 22nd
Tsarina Press – https://www.tsarinapress.com

June 23rd
The Hufflepuff Nerdette (Review) https://thehufflepuffnerdette.wordpress.com/

June 24th

June 25th
*Yearwood Novela – http://yearwooddailybookreview.wordpress.com
Kim Knight (Review & Interview) http://www.kimknightauthor.com
Quirky Cat’s Fat Stacks (Review) https://quirkycatsfatstacks.com/

June 26th
The Photographers Way (Review) http://www.thephotographersway.org

June 27th
Daily Waffle (Excerpt) http://www.dailywaffle.co.uk/
I’m Into Books (Excerpt) https://www.imintobooks.com/

June 28th
Scarlett Readz & Runz (Interview) https://scarlettreadzandrunz.com/
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