A Stitch in Time: A heart-warming and page-turning British time travel romance (Time Traveller Book 1)

I love time slip themes and the author takes us in a unique direction with this tale. The stories within the story are quite enthralling all the same; however, it won't appeal to all fans of this genre.Ms James takes time to introduce Sarah to us. We feel her pain as she questions her own self worth in a tumble of emotions. John comes across as quite steady and self assured as soon as we meet him. Both of the main characters are strong individuals but the author doesn't spend as much time building on the supporting characters in this story which is a shame.The different time lines are presented realistically and incorporate a little history as we travel this journey with Sarah. I did feel a pull back to the future though in parts and felt that overall this was a present day love story with a twist. The time slip aspect was a quirky side tale but I enjoyed it all the same.The author has left us wondering what will become of Sarah and John now that they have become our friends. There is definitely a hint of the possibility of a sequel where we can further catch a glimpse of the main characters as they continue on this path.Overall a pleasant reading jaunt. The writing style is simple and humorous at times and you can overlook the predictable ending as it is a pleasure to walk this path for a while. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a light hearted trip into romance with a twist.

Great idea for a story, slightly clumsy execution. The characters were a bit two dimensional, and the romance was almost mills & boon formula, but I still read to the end to see what happened to them, so the story had appeal.

I really enjoyed this book. Well written, no errors. For me, this was an unusual take on the travel. It mixes present day situations and historical settings. It is a predictable romance but with enough sci-fi to make a good read.

I read this book due to a link on Twitter - and I'm so glad I did. I really enjoyed it - and finished it within a couple of days. I love history so the 'travelling back in time' aspect of the book appealed to me - and the characters of Sarah and John were immediately likeable. Sarah was not suddenly all knowing in the situations into which she was flung - and her struggles to decide what she should or shouldn't do in these circumstances were funny and even gripping. It won't matter if you don't usually like fantasy or time travel - the people are the heart of this book. It's an easy read - and thoroughly enjoyable.

Curiously inept heroine to choose to go back and correct time -- she may be a history major but she's a terrible teacher, totally unable to function in the real world (can't build a fire?) and the hero(?) -- you know the one where she is so incapable of another thought except how she craves having sex with him that she almost doesn't make it through her time assignment -- is a passive-aggressive mental abuser who seems to delight in placing her in situations where she is the butt of jokes and pranks. Glad it's fiction because I wouldn't want the fate of the world in either of their hands.

Time slip novels are not usually my thing but I loved this book. Sarah is fed up with her unexciting life but when she meets the intriguing John Needler everything changes. His family has been involved with helping people from the past to find their happy endings and he asks Sarah to go back in time. The book moves seamlessly from the Blitz in WWII to the suffragette movement in London to the American Wild West. I enjoyed Sarah’s gradual travel towards her own happy ending with a man who never thought he’d be fortunate enough to find the right woman to understand his unusual life.

light, predictable, not much struggle for our heroes to overcome in the story. Unfortunately, it has not kept my attention enough. Might not finish it. Sarah's been on 3 trips so far and I am getting the feeling that the period details are somewhat not quite right for the predicaments she finds herself in. Also, 'the powers that be' that are running the show are not explained, and do not explain and I find that irritating.

TIME TRAVEL BOOKS ARE MY FAV. THIS IS NOT ONE OF MY FAVS BUT IT IS A GOOD ONE.

This is a light-hearted time travel novel, with a somewhat more significant romance element than I would normally choose to read, but the time travel elements were quite well handled. Sarah Yates is a history teacher in Sheffield who one evening is visited by a mysterious handsome stranger, John, who tells her she has been chosen for a task to "stitch" holes in the fabric of time, the stranger being the "needle" who directs her missions. She travels back to Sheffield in 1940, London 1913, Kansas in 1874 and London in 1928. Some of the missions feel more serious than others, though they are mostly quite good fun, and I'm a sucker for almost any time travel story, so this was a pleasant, undemanding read.

This was an entertaining story and I'm pleased to give four stars for it. I wanted to keep turning the page as I followed Sarah through her missions into the past to put right what might go wrong. I was worried about the hero in the story, John. He did seem to have quite a violent temper and I'm always wary of folk who throw objects about in a fit of rage.The author had certainly done her research and her visits to the Blitz of London, the Edwardian era and the Wild Frontier of America were quite touching. I did notice that the author mentioned a mop cap when it's actually a mob-cap, but otherwise I did feel I was there with Sarah.A good time-travel story with plenty of twists and turns.

I’ve been meaning to read a book in the time travel genre for quite some time, so when I came across A Stitch in Time I snapped it up immediately. And it didn’t disappoint. It was all it promised to be – imaginative, fun, and completely captivating.A bit about the story. Thirty-something Sarah Yates, a history schoolteacher who’s been ditched by her husband for her best friend, is stunned when gorgeous stranger, John Needler (a time travel Needle), suddenly turns up on her doorstep claiming that she’s been chosen by ‘the powers that be’ to be a time traveller. Her mission? To save lives. After a bit of coaxing, John convinces her to take on the challenge, and Sarah’s adventures as a Stitch begin. We follow her on her journey through the different eras, from the Sheffield Blitz through to delivering a baby in the Old American West. I warmed to Sarah right away. She’d had a tough time romantically and deserved a bit of happiness and excitement in her life.. And I adored John Needler too, a good, strong, gorgeous man, and guess what? He can cook too! A man after my own heart. But can Stitches and Needles mix? My lips are sealed. I don’t want to spoil it for you.I loved Amanda James’s voice, style and storytelling. She offers us a little bit of everything in this novel – romance, humour, and history. It’s told mainly from Sarah’s viewpoint but we do get into John’s head in a few of the chapters too. The well-researched historical scenes were fascinating, and I was completely blown away by author’s imagination and vision of time travel, especially the jaw dropping moments when Sarah slips from one time zone to the next.All in all, a very relaxing read and a great bit of escapism. Loved it!

The idea is a clever one. Sarah, a history teacher, is a stitcher - someone who can repair things which have gone wrong in the past and make sure that the future continues as it is. She is introduced to her new life by John who is a needle - someone who assists. Fortunately, every situation she is sent back into is one that she is currently teaching and so she knows all about (in amazing detail it transpires). In this book she is thrust into Sheffield during the Blitz, Edwardian London, 1920s London, and with the early settlers in the American West. Her role is to find the person who needs help and to work out what to do to fix it - she takes the place of someone quite like her in the past. (This is all very like the TV programme "Quantum Leap" except that Sarah gets to go home between jumps).I loved the idea and I thought that it was reasonably well thought through - although "the powers that be" who control the process remain mysterious and seem to have a lot of power over memory and circumstances. I thought that Sarah's methods of dealing with issues was more of a problem. She goes in totally unprepared and she doesn't know what she has to do or who to help but she does spend a lot of time being incredibly rude to people, lying and barging her way through their lives to achieve her goal. Of course, what she does is successful but I really didn't like her attitude either in the past or the present - she always seems to be giggling at what people say and being very disrespectful.With a different heroine this might have been a five star book because of the idea behind it but I really couldn't warm to Sarah and thus I didn't really engage.

I recently took an educated guesstimate that this was the book that I'd had on my TBR pile the longest so decided I should get on and read it. It's been on my Kindle for at least 2 years!The book started off really well and I immediately enjoyed the author's humour and Sarah's character. I thought she had a Bridget Jones kind of style to her.I thought it was a clever idea with the Needles and the Stitches and how the author has incorporated phrases about time stemming from the time travel.If I'm being honest I enjoyed the historical parts more and appreciated the research that would have gone into these because they came across as very realistic. I liked Sarah being thrown into the past with her not knowing where or what kind of situation she'd find herself in and how she'd cope and having to remember to not let anything slip about the future...I would have liked more of this.And less of the the scenes in the present! I found her and John's relationship overly schmalzy and somewhat predictable especially the scenes involving Josephina. However, that is just me because I think the majority of readers will enjoy the romantic side of the story. Overall I'm glad I picked it up and enjoyed the read.Do any UK readers remember that TV mini series Lost in Austen? this kind of reminded me of that.