Critics Review

• It’s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . I had my mind blown apart. After I finished it I sat with my mouth hanging open in awe. One of the best books I’ve ever read

  Lisa Jewell

• Extraordinary

  Harriet Tyce

• It’s absolutely AMAZING. The plot is astonishing – original and ingenious

  Marian Keyes

• The best book I have read in a very long time. Genius. Simply genius. This is McAllister as the very top of her consistently excellent game. Brilliantly plotted, perfectly paced, characters I was invested in. This is a masterclass of exactly what a novel should be. Taught, tense, not a wasted word. This brilliantly plotted novel had me on the edge of my seat. You have to read this book

  Adele Parks

• I was completely blown away by the plot of this ingenious thriller . . . genuinely gripping

  Good Housekeeping

• The most intriguing premise for a novel I have seen in some time, and what’s more the story more than lives up to it! This is bravura novel-writing

  Ian Rankin

• The unstoppable Gillian McAllister is at the top of her game with this ingenious thriller. Wrong Place Wrong Time is a book to blow your mind and break your heart

  Erin Kelly

• It’s about time . . . Wrong Place Wrong Time will be your crime novel of the year . . . and the year before, and the year before that. A gripping thriller that plays with every expectation. An absolutely riveting read!

  Janice Hallett

• A brilliantly genre-bending, mind-twisting answer to the question, how far would you go to save your child?

  Ruth Ware

• Genre-bending and totally original, I loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Convincing, heartbreaking and wonderfully written with a twist that made me gasp out loud. This is a tour de force!

  Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Couple At No 9

• This audacious, jaw-on-the-floor novel will be the best thriller you read all year

  Red

• Amazing. Wow. Can’t imagine it not being my book of the year. So, so clever, exciting and gripping. The very last twist made me gasp out loud. Deserves to be a No. 1 bestseller and major Netflix drama or Hollywood movie!

  Sophie Hannah

• Daring, inventive, exhilarating, twisted. It reminded me of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP and MEMENTO. Dive in

  A.J. Finn

• Mindblowingly good. I’m in awe

  Jane Fallon

• A clever, sinister take on ‘deja vu’ which gives a whole new perspective to psychological suspense. A modern ‘Time-Traveller’s Mum’. I was gripped

  Jane Corry

• A work of such genius it leaves you in awe. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is impossibly clever, daringly original and heart-rending. Exceptional

  Chris Whitaker

• Fiendishly clever and flawlessly executed, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is a staggering achievement. I could not put this novel down – it’s just dazzling

  Rosie Walsh

• Smart, addictive and ingeniously plotted – this is a stunning high-concept thriller

  T.M Logan

• I am totally in awe . . . This is one story I will not forget

  Heidi Perks

• A breathtaking must-read book that ticks every possible box. Wrong Place Wrong Time runs the whole gamut of emotions with perfectly paced twists and turns that leave you utterly spent and completely satisfied. I gasped, I laughed, I sobbed, I screamed – I loved it

  Lindsey Kelk

• Brilliantly original, so tense and so moving

  Lucy Clarke, bestselling author of The Castaways

• Ingenious. Criminal mastermind. Twists and misdirections are embedded in Wrong Place Wrong Time’s clever narrative

  Writing Magazine

• McAllister has always been a plot master, but with Wrong Place, Wrong Time she’s surpassed herself. So riveting you’ll pull a sickie and ignore all family and friends until the breath-taking final page

  Celia Walden

• A tightly crafted plot from a great thriller writer

  Prima

• A genre-defining masterpiece that turns everything you think you know about crime, family and memory on its head. I’m so jealous of everybody who gets to read this for the first time. An instant classic

  Holly Seddon

• An extraordinary novel. Intricately plotted, beautifully written and impossible to put down. This is a Groundhog Day thriller lived and told backwards, which is such an incredibly smart concept – but Wrong Place, Wrong Time is not just clever, it’s heart-wrenching and full of emotion too. McAllister is a writer at the absolute top of her game

  Beth O'Leary

• Unquestionably her best book yet. Mind bending and extraordinary. What an amazing achievement. All the stars!

  Jill Mansell

• A genuine premise, compelling characters, and an absolute masterclass in plotting

  Lucy Clarke, bestselling author of The Castaways

• The latest novel from Gillian McAllister is perfect in every way. Pretty sure she’s going to take over the world with that book

  Imran Mahmood

• Mindblowingly brilliant, it’s a cracker – everyone should preorder IMMEDIATELY

  Lisa Hall

• Wrong Place Wrong Time is an astonishingly accomplished psychological thriller that pinpoints the ferocious love between mother and son, and the lengths we go to for that love. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I was entertained, but more than that: I was moved

  Laura Jane Williams

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time is an intricately plotted, highly original thriller full of heart, layers and jaw-dropping twists. Gillian McAllister is one of the finest suspense writers in the market today and this outstanding novel deserves every success

  Phoebe Morgan

• The next I Let You Go, the next Gone Girl, the next Girl on the Train . . . Wrong Place, Wrong Time will be a huge hit, deservedly so

  Sarah Turner, Costa Book Awards Judge

• Masterfully crafted in every way, this novel races along-backward-for a reading experience so intriguing and immersive that you’ll only pause to wonder how McAllister has done it. An original and emotional thriller that nails the tender moments of a mother’s love as much as the big, impressive twists. A total stand-out and great fun to read-I loved it

  Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of THE PUSH

• WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is the spellbinding story of a mother going back in time to try to prevent her son from committing a murder. Masterfully plotted and wholly original, McAllister keeps the surprises coming until the very last page, with an ending as satisfying as it is haunting.

  Stephanie Wrobel

• It’s extraordinary, just One of Those Books. She’s carved through time, and created something three dimensional. It’s like peering into the interior of a beautiful twisty shell. I absolutely loved it.

  Eve Chase

• Clever, original, and so addictive it should come with a warning. I loved it!

  Alice Feeney

• Gillian McAllister takes detective fiction in a new direction with this novel. Convincingly portrayed, and the criminal plot is cleverly designed

  Literary Review

• This book is clever, clever, clever. Tightly plotted with a great cast of characters and tension in every line, I lived it and loved it

  Fiona Barton

• A super-clever, belter of a book that will stay with you long after you finish it

  Sun

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a mind-bending, time-twisting knockout of a book. Genius plotting and pacing easily make this one of my favourite reads this year. Gillian McAllister is a rare talent

  Samantha Downing

• Once I started reading I whizzed through the book in a couple of sittings. Such deft crafting! It would make great TV

  Claire Chambers

• A game-changer. What an amazing book

  Times Radio

• Brilliant. A genre defining book. So clever. It’s going to be huge

  Times Radio

• Channels Groundhog Day with an endlessly replayed murder, as a woman’s unassuming son kills a stranger – over and over again. The familiar plot motif is given an unguessable reset, and McAllister ensures that characterisation is as central to the novel’s success as the plotting

  Financial Times