Oran Doyle: Give Me'Til Midnight

A fresh take on the time loop trope, a rom com that takes place over a single iteration of the loop – just one sunny day in May. A character-centred story following two sixteen-year-olds walking around contemporary Dublin, it’s Before Sunrise meets Groundhog Day for readers of books like David Levithan’s Every Day. And David Nicholls’s  One Day.

Liam is sixteen and stuck in an eternal dead end Thursday. The self-proclaimed King of Dublin, Liam relives one sunny day in May over and over, the clock always ticking, ticking towards the midnight reset. Then he meets Harmony. She’s a school drop out, working in a dingy caff, every day the same. Liam wants to show off his city to her. Harmony wants to not be unknowingly stuck in his time loop too. He gives her till midnight to help him escape his eternal Thursday. Now the clock is ticking. Can they make it stop?

From Irish author Oran Doyle!