Oxford, 1981: When fifty-year-old Nick Taylor is cast back in time, he finds the past isn’t so easy to fix – especially now he’s only ten years old. 1981 was a year Nick would rather forget. His mother died in a plane crash, his father ran off with the babysitter, and he ended up at the worst school imaginable. Now he’s been gifted the chance to return to 1981, before the events that shaped his annus horribilis. Can he make the most of this opportunity to put things right? Join Nick as he relives the experience of growing up in the 1980s, in this humorous and thought-provoking time travel story. 1981 is part of the anthology series, A Year in the Life . Each book revisits a different aspect of life in the 1980s, and each story can be enjoyed standalone.