What did I do tomorrow?

by Leslie Purnell Davies

Book Overview

LP Davies 1972 Science Fiction thriller revisits Davies' intense obsession with lost identity, deception and small english country villages. Enter a world of chain smoking and gentle chauvinism where... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385078072
• ISBN13: 9780385078078
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"Blood. On his clothes, on his hands. Blood everywhere."

Seventeen-year-old Harry Trowman wakes and goes outside and strolls about the palisade of Buddleigh Hall School and reminiscences about when he was first sent there, this will be important later on. While he is doing so he meets schoolmates Martin Debroy and Andy Brett and they discuss their futures after graduation. Harry is trying to decide whether or not to go into the family business or go on to universe. Later he goes back to his room and as he sits in a chair, the present suddenly morphs into the future and he finds that instead of sitting in his room, he is now sitting in somebody's office. He panics and leaves through a window, and finds that he has somehow traveled five years into the future, and he has no memory or idea of what has happened in the last five years. Let's give Davies some credit, he doesn't have Harry go into denial and spend pages going "Oh my God! This can't be happening!". No, Harry goes into survival mode and as he searches through his pockets he finds an address, he travels there and he finds Christine "Tina" Martin. While he doesn't remember her, she remembers him, as she met him at a party the night before. At first she is skeptical of Harry's story of being transported five years into the future, and that he is now occupying the body of his future self. But, as the novel progresses, and Tina partners up with him to find out what has happened to Harry, the more convinced she becomes that there might be something to his story after all. As they investigate the last five years of his life, they find out that he has done SOMETHING, what they don't know, that has caused Harry to be excommunicated from his family, and family business, that has caused him to be now an employee at his father's rival business, and to be a suspect in the murder of his friend and flatmate. As they investigate they find that Harry's presence has a strange and hostile effect on people, that a mysterious doctor is after him, his very own mother has relocated and will not reveal her new location to anybody, INCLUDING Harry, and suddenly somebody is trying to kill him. L. P. Davies is a forgotten writer now, even though at least two of his novels have been filmed. All of his books explore the slippery barriers that exist between reality, unreality, and surrealism, and "What Did I Do Tomorrow?" is no different. Most of his novels, if not all of them, are essentially science fiction novels that are marketed as suspense. They mostly all start off the same as somebody starts figuring out that he is not who he thinks he is; in the few that I have read ("Pychogeist", "The Artificial Man"), it is usually an average guy who gradually finds out that he is some form of alien being. In this novel the formula starts off the same, as Harry has to find out who and what he is, and "What Did I Do Tomorrow?" will eventually come across as borderline science fiction. He also has the tendency to come across as a British Phil Dick, only with

Time travel or Insanity?

One second, this guy is 17 years old and it is 1969 then the VERY NEXT second it is 1974. The guy is very afraid, did he fall into a time-warp or is he going crazy? He sets out to find out. A fun book.