Sharon Griffiths

Time of My Life

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Life on Mars meets It's a Wonderful Life in this inventive romantic comedy that looks at what we can learn from the past….
Journalist Rosie Hartford is having an odd day. Or one hell of a hangover…
Having had a blazing row with her boyfriend – fellow journalist Will – she reluctantly sets off for her latest assignment: an interview with one of the residents of The Meadows, a grotty local estate about to become the set for a major reality TV show, The 1950s House.
But stepping through the front door, Rosie finds herself in a different house – and transported back in time. Everything is grey and drab – the food, the clothes, the TV. It's like the world is in permanent black and white.
It's not long before Rosie realises what's going on. She's obviously a contestant on the 1950s show! She's pretty miffed she's not been given warning, but she might as well give it a go – after all, the cameras are always watching and the first rule of reality TV is always keep smiling…
But what really sends Rosie into a spin is the fact that Will is there too – but here he is known as Billy and has been married since he was 16 to Rosie's best friend. In the 1950s, Will/Billy is a family man and devoted father, a side to him that Rosie finds hard to imagine. He grows vegetables, repairs shoes and even has a shed. He is, in fact, a grown up.
The truth slowly dawns on Rosie that this is reality, not reality TV. After she gets over the shock, she begins to embrace daily life 1950s-style. Gone are the excessive consumerism, drifting relationships and cheap thrills of the Noughties. In its place is make do and mend, commitment, duty and honour.
Together Rosie and Billy make a great team, covering dramatic local stories, and inevitably growing closer until Rosie falls in love with Will/Billy all over again. But now he has a wife and kids and is out of bounds…
Unless she can get back to 2008…
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342 printed pages
Publication year
2008
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  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted4 years ago
    Maybe it was the knitting … OK, maybe not. Trust me, its therapeutic effects are overrated. But on Monday morning I felt a lot calmer. Maybe this was just an adventure. Part of me was still bewildered, trying to work it out and if I thought too hard about it, I guess I could feel the panic rising again. But I clung on to the fact that everyone said I would be here just for a few weeks. So the other part of me was curious, excited almost. This was an adventure and I wanted to see what happened. After all, I thought, it could be a great story …

    After such a stodgy Sunday I practically ran into the office. I was actually looking forward to work. I went into the reporters’ room expecting to be greeted by Gordon’s demands for tea. But he wasn’t there. Instead Billy was standing with the big diary in front of him, marking up the stories.

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