'''Shortlisted for Contemporary Romantic Novel of the year, 2012'''
Eve Carpenter is having a very bad day, and it is about to get worse. She comes round from a paragliding accident but everything is rather strange. Although she’s still in London, this is a city and a world she hardly recognises. There is just enough that is familiar to be totally confusing. In this world, England is a backward country with a population kept too busy fighting in a civil war to do much else. She is taken captive by a small group of soldiers who take her marching across the country with them. The leader, Major Harker, is obnoxious and scruffy, and is convinced Eve is a spy, or perhaps she is just mad. While they apparently speak the same language, they struggle to understand each other – their worlds are so different.
Thank you to Choc Lit for sending a copy of this original and exciting romantic adventure story to the Bookbag.
Choc Lit specialises in publishing intelligent and original chicklit, often by debut authors, and another Bookbag recommendation is [[Please Don't Stop the Music by Jane Lovering]]. A classic alternate reality story written for younger readers but by an author with many more mature fans is [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones]].