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Time Was

Time Was

Penned By Ian McDonald
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Time Was

Time Was

Penned By Ian McDonald
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A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it.In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found.Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their disparate timelines overlap.

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Length 176 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Tor.com
Released April 24, 2018
Identifier (ISBN) 29976283
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Ian McDonald finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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