Jacob and the Time Machine, (Paperback)

<p>When a substantial inheritance leaves him financially secure, Jacob Moss, a thirty-something drifter decides, on a whim, to restore the derelict television studio where his favourite childhood programme, <em>Dexter and the Time Machine</em>, was once filmed. The show followed the adventures of an eccentric space dog as he travelled through history.</p><p></p><p>His project gains momentum when he meets Kenny Abbott, the programme's former presenter, now an ageing alcoholic in recovery. Together they set out to reunite the original cast and recreate a lost episode. As public interest grows and the restoration nears completion, Jacob believes he is on the cusp of recapturing a fragment of his lost youth. </p><p></p><p>But the past refuses to stay buried.</p><p></p><p>Unsettling discoveries about his late father gradually expose gaps in Jacob's memory and an encounter with a former classmate leaves him with further doubts. As long-forgotten events begin to surface, he learns that the nostalgia he has built his life around is concealing something far darker.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, Jacob is forced to confront a truth he has suppressed. The childhood he idealises was not be what he remembers, and the television programme that shaped his imagination may have played an unexpected role in a tragedy that changed multiple lives forever.</p><p>A poignant and thought-provoking literary novel, <em>Jacob and the Time Machine</em> explores memory, guilt, lost youth and the seductive dangers of nostalgia, asking whether it is ever possible to return to the past-or whether some doors are better left closed.</p>

• Jacob and the Time Machine, (Paperback)
• Author: Richard Overton
• ISBN: 9781066701605
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-01
• Page Count: 256