Time Travel for Beginners

'A quiet Sydney shop offers impossible journeys to those who need them most.'--The Australian, 'the big books of 2026'

Three strangers' lives are forever changed when they're all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel in this dazzling novel from award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty.

Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution.

On a quiet road nestled within the bustle of Sydney lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confounding mystery and a beacon of hope, the Agency seems to attract those who need it most.

Single mother Anna is in desperate need of change, and the Agency gives her the chance to begin her career--and life--anew. Teddy is a genius at salvaging businesses but needs saving himself, and he's drawn to the Agency hoping to travel back in time to untangle his troubled childhood and his recently imploded marriage. Jade has no interest in the Agency at all, because there's no way people are literally time traveling, right? Jade's present is challenging enough, with her spirited, increasingly bad-tempered daughter and a deeply buried secret too painful for words.

As Anna, Teddy, and Jade's paths converge, the question of just how legitimate the Agency's ventures into the past are becomes a mysterious, provocative, tantalising, and even heart-wrenching one to parse--but there is no denying that the ripple effects through all three of their lives are very, very real ...

PRAISE FOR GRAVITY IS THE THING:

'Astonishingly wonderful and magical and moving and uplifting and DIFFERENT'--Marian Keyes

'I loved this book. It's rare for me to have no idea where a story is headed but I only knew that I didn't want it to end. Funny, heartbreaking and clever with a mystery at its heart.'--Jojo Moyes

'A brilliant, beautiful, hilarious, heartbreaking, extraordinary book. I say this without bias, only awe.'--Liane Moriarty

'Jaclyn Moriarty writes with such intimacy and charm, it's like talking to your dream best friend. But then she weaves a story so compelling, and heartbreaking, and profound, it could only have come from an extraordinary writer.'--Laura Bloom

'A thoughtful, beautifully written, truly original, and often hilarious meditation on loss, hope, the self-help industry, and the difficulties of navigating life on earth.'--Emily St. John Mandel