Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller by Amelia Tait

Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller by Amelia Tait published 2026 (this week) This is a new book for Young Adults, and that high concept title gives a pretty good idea of what it’s about. Lily Tripp, your average 13-year-old, living now in the UK, sometimes goes to sleep and wakes up in a different historical era. During this book – and I do hope it’s going to be the first of a series – she ends up in the 17th century, and then in the 1970s. She also reminisces about visits to other eras.Living a dramatic life in the 1600s.... It is a great idea for a book, and the diary format works vey well. Lily is a very convincing young woman, and when she goes time-travelling she is surrounded by her same family, friends and schoolmates – but they don’t realize they are doubling up, they just think Lily is a bit weird sometimes. It is very funny and entertaining. There is no reason given for the travelling, and the mechanics aren’t explored that closely. (I’m all in favour of that:…