Summer 2021: New to the north, Hermione’s mum has moved her away from London and all her friends to start a new life with new boyfriend Paul, who resembles a slab of meat from the butchers. Just as well she can paint over that hideous wallpaper in her new room. The added element of peril truly gripped me and I was hoping for a happy ending throughout. I’d have loved to see Hermione and Helena meet again in 2021, but can understand and appreciate the ending as it stands.

Summer 1975: Helena is bored out of her mind—there's absolutely nothing to do and her supposed 'best friends' Gwen and Elaine are holidaying in the South of France without her. The only saving grace is that she's allowed to re-decorate her room—bring on the purple floral wallpaper. From acclaimed writer and comedian Jenny Eclair comes a hilarious and heart-breaking story about a friendship against all odds.

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Summer 2021: New to the north, Hermione's mum has moved her away from London and all her friends to start a new life with new boyfriend Paul, who resembles a slab of meat from the butchers. Just as well she can paint over that hideous wallpaper in her new room.

From acclaimed writer and comedian, Jenny Éclair, comes a hilarious and heart-breaking story about a friendship against all odds.The language is questionable. The 2021 character uses a lot of terms that will probably be outdated by next year. The older character uses lots of words and phrases that also seem far too modern for her. Overall, one will be incomprehensible soon and the other will keep being anachronistic. It also reads a little bit like a creative writing class assignment; something you have to do and want to show off with but don't really care about. Jenny Eclair did the narration and I much preferred the 1975 narration and that part of the story, and that was good because I think that was where most of the story was set, I genuinely got confused at one point thinking I'd imagined the first modern day section.