A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She's dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly peril.
In the Napolionic period, a little boy must walk miles to market, on his own, for the first time.
In the present day, a teenage girl - along with her best friend Rob - faces the challenges of her extreme shyness and mutism.
There is another presence too. Professor Molly Barnes - in her eighties - unwittingly presides over the narratives, looking back on her own coming-of-age, recalling her earliest memories of friendship and questioning her own profession and its capacity to discover true versions of history.
A tri-narrative tale set in the East Anglian countryside, connecting three very different stories to an archaeological discovery of a Roman mosaic floor and a mysterious Anglo-Saxon bracelet, "Time After Time" is a coming-of-age novel with an adult perspective.