Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. But one where American landscape would change for ever.Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. With such an iconic event and time period in the novel, of a real life event which many people can still remember, this is a thrillingly dangerous time travelling opportunity.Īs well as the event of 1963, there’s the time and period detail such as the lindy bopping, the corner shops, the lack of technology and mobile phones. Trouble is what part of the day can you change and will this have an impact of not just what happened to the President but to someone else and in some other way? Going back to Dallas in this time travel way is thrilling and dangerous as the reader, knowing what is going to happen, what did happen, but wondering if Jake will somehow manage to shine the light on Dallas for another reason altogether. Jake’s adventures into the past becomes a mission to prevent the assassination of JFK in 1963 which took place on 11.22 1963 and therefore the title of the book becomes a kind of Challenge and beacon for Jake to strive for. One thing has an effect on the other and who can really tell where it will all end? History could be altered on not just a local or national way but an international one. But once you start changing history, it’s not just one event or one day you change. Imagine finding an old portal in the back of a diner which leads to the past and when he goes there, what can he do?

This is a (book) trail to the past and via the medium of time travel.

There’s a diner in town where he normally eats but when he finds that this is a diner with a link to the past, he starts on a journey like never before.

A quaint small time and remote kind of town where the main character of the story lives.

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