Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she's ever wanted. Born into a family of wealth, she grew up in a mansion with its own private beach, a wardrobe full of designer clothes, a large four poster bed complete with a luxurious bathroom en-suite. She's always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. But then suddenly her dad is gone and life for Tamara and her mother changes forever. Left with a mountain of debt, they have no choice but to sell everything they own and move to the country to live with Tamara's Uncle and Aunt. Nestled next to Kilsaney Castle, their gatehouse is a world away from Tamara's childhood. With her mother shut away with grief, and her aunt busy tending to her, Tamara is lonely and bored and longs to return to Dublin. When a travelling library passes through Kilsaney Demesne, Tamara is intrigued. She needs a distraction. Her eyes rest on a mysterious large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock. With some help, Tamara finally manages to open the book. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core. Told in Cecelia's imitable style, The Girl of Tomorrow is a mesmerising and magical story for this autumn.
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Cecelia Ahern is the author of the international bestsellers P.S. I Love You; Love, Rosie; If You Could See Me Now; There's No Place Like Here; and The Gift. The daughter of Ireland's former prime minister, she lives in Dublin.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An amazingly brilliant book!!!,
This review is from: The Book of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
Tamara is a teenager who is used to getting whatever she wants, born into wealth and living in a mansion in addition to being whiny and bitchy. Now she tragically loses her dad, which also means losing everything her life was revolvving around it seems in addition to her mother's sanity as well.
So, they are forced to move to the country with her uncle and his wife, who seems to try too hard to please them, or is she?! Now her mother is acting strangly and sleeping more and more, very seldom leaving her room, and Tamara is told that she is greiving and should be left alone to relax and find her peace. She finds out that the country is so different that the life she is used to, life now is more basic and simple. She tries to make friends with the librarian of the travelling library Marcus, a guy on the grounds called Weasley and an old Nun. But things don't seem as they appear to be and soon Tamara starts to uncover deep dark secrets concerning all those around her, with the help of a weird book that seems to know things before they happen! Then when things start to reveal itself in the end and the secrets are no more, it gets so fast paced and exciting it's so hard to not fly through the pages. I kept guessing and guessing till the end! The ending was very satisfying and makes the puzzle pieces fit together perfectly, so no loose ends! This book blew me away!! Utterly AMAZING!!! It was literally so hard for me to put down, I didn't want anyone or anything to take me away from this wonderful story! It is one of my favorite books for this year!! And probably one of my favorites, period! This is the second book I read for this author and she amazed me both times, the first book I read was P.S. I Love You and it's still an all-time favorite for me. I'm sure I'll get her other books as soon as I can!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Takes you on an adventure,
By L Murphy (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Tomorrow (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this story.... As usual Cecelia crosses over the line of reality to give a story that takes you to a whole new world.
I really like Tamara, Okay shes not someone you d like as a friend at the start of the story anyways but shes got one hell of an amusing attitude and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the comments, though rude, that she makes. This book like all of Cecelia Aherns books is a really good read and I would never have guessed the ending.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The magic faded,
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This review is from: The Book of Tomorrow (Paperback)
I love Cecelia's books, the fantasy, magic and always something creatively different. This book however, is different from the rest. Cecelia managed jump into the minds of 16-year-old, but the story kept rambling and rambling on every page on how Tamara hated everything and being selfish despite not wanting to be one. The Book of Tomorrow, which is actually the "magical" book that Tamara stumbles upon, pops up so little in the story, that I really felt the novel should be entitled something else. There was very little magic involved. It was more like CSI type books - poor Tamara, looking for clues and find answers.
I had to skip few pages just to get to the point she was trying make. Nevertheless, I hope the next book Cecelia writes will bring back the magic into her works - the very reason why her novels are always a great read. I still loved this book though, because of the country side scenes, and the fact that everything made sense in one single chapter.
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