"The photograph disappeared when my father remarried quickly, and it became tactless to mention my mother, let alone her grandmother. Rose faded from the family consciousness ... But then I moved to Edinburgh, bought a flat, and learned that Rose had once lived and worked as a maid in one of the terraced houses at the end of my street." Mary is an investment banker in Edinburgh’s Financial District. A seasoned time-traveller, she connects with suffragette Violet and her daughter Rose, a WW1 soldier’s sweetheart. Her life begins strangely to mirror theirs. Can she finally face her own past trauma to reach across a century and heal their mother-daughter relationship? The world of the time-traveller is skilfully drawn to be completely believable and absorbing. We enter into the time-travelling exploits of an archetypal twenty-first century career woman and come to care very much what will happen to her and to the ancestors she connects with. Fran Brady is a passionate Scot and her novels reflect her wide knowledge and deep love of her homeland, both its cities and its wild places. A Time to Travel is her fifth novel.