Time Will Tell

The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances

De: Hannah Bonam-Young

Narrado por: Victoria Connolly, Maxim Reston

When a mysterious time capsule leads a Toronto teacher to England, she discovers some loves are worth crossing oceans—and decades—to find, from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Bonam-Young.

When a history teacher receives a letter from her deceased grandmother revealing a secret love affair in the 1950s, it leads her to a time capsule hidden decades ago. But it’s the charming grandson of her grandmother’s lost love who changes everything, proving that sometimes the heart knows exactly where—and when—it belongs.

Hannah Bonam-Young’s Time Will Tell is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances, stories for star-crossed lovers and hopeless romantics. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s do it again.

©2026 by Hannah Bonam-Young. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Cute

This was a very cute story! Love brought them together across the pond. Narration was so good as well

Such a cute story

This was such a cute and fun book to read. It was quick, enjoyable and unique. This was my first book by Hannah Bonam-Young and I will be looking to read more books she wrote. The audiobook narrators did an amazing job bringing this story to life. It was done in duet and it was very enjoyable. The MMCs accent was adorable. I highly recommend this book and audiobook.

Meh, especially for Hannah Bonam Young

I love Hannah Bonam Young! However, I was a little bummed by this book. I liked the concept of long distance meeting someone, getting to know them, and falling in love. It was neat to hear their conversations through a variety of ways (email, calling, and in person). But it just fell a little flat. The narrators Victoria Connolly and Maxim Reston fit the characters well. The accents were a great match. The book being recorded as Duet was chef’s kiss!

Kids these days

This was an earnest, but ultimately nice and harmless little nugget, going from emails to phone, to in-person meet-cute super quick, and then finishing with an epilogue to summarize the HEA. With only one kiss and a tame swear word, this is a cozy listen.

The core plot is LGBTQ supportive. There are gentle digs about tolerance, proliferation of social media, and redheads. If this was book length, I have a feeling I’d find it too flower-child preachy and saccharine sweet. But, at novella length, the descriptions of astrological signs by two MCs who are supposedly academics went down easy.

Old school charm

My grandma and mom used to say -“you don’t need to eat the whole pot of rice to taste it. A spoonful is testament enough”
And boy these women sure knew what they were talking about. A short novella, barely 5 chapters long is enough to showcase the talent of Hannah. This is my first brush with her work and I'm so impressed by her unique story, command of language, deft expression of sentiments.
Georgia gets a time capsule as inheritance from her deceased grandmother and the caveat is, it’s locked, with the key inherited by Callum on the other side of the pond. This meet-cute, fated romance brings them together with a history steeped in societal restraints. Hannah has managed to touch my heart with adorable cuteness but also made the prose important with topical issue we still struggle with today.
Narration by Victoria Connolly and maxim reston is melodic & soothing.
I'll definitely pick more of her books now
“5 stars for British Clark Kent”