The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw

I have received a free e-copy of the book The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw to review. To find out more about the author you may visit his website.

Here is the book blurb.

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.

The story starts from Emma’s point of view as a child. Her dad is an actor and her mum takes her to see a film starring her dad. Only trouble is that it is a grown up film, so boring and then horrifying when she sees her dad get shot. They have to leave the cinema at that point with Emma in tears. This sets the scene and we then learn all about Emma, her parents and grandparents. There are many times when Emma’s dad is missing from home due to his filming schedule, even Christmas Day, but meanwhile Emma looks up to her grandad who has just had a maths book published and helps her with her homework.

As her Dad’s fame increases, they move from their Edinburgh flat to a North Berwick mansion complete with staff, but her mum doesn’t like it as she can’t be so anonymous there. And of course, Emma has to change school. She becomes friends with Patsy and Oz.

But then something happens that changes everything. Emma’s world starts to unravel. Nothing is the same again.

We then move to part 2 of the book. Emma is now a young adult and has changed her name to Maria. Why? Is she coping? What else is different?

The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw is newly published on Amazon today, currently priced at £3.99 in Kindle format and is also available in paperback. This wasn’t my usual type of read but I found it to be a poignant tragic deep story.

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