Plot Summary

The following summer, Kit Kat’s friend Charlotte visits. Although instantly smitten, Tim waits until the last day to tell her; she tells him he should have told her earlier. Tim travels back in time to tell Charlotte in the middle of the holiday, but she suggests he wait until her last day. Heartbroken, he realises that she is uninterested in him and time travel cannot change anyone’s mind. Tim moves to London to pursue a career as a lawyer, initially living with his father’s acquaintance Harry, a playwright. He visits a Dans le Noir restaurant, where he meets Mary, an American who works for a publisher.

They flirt in the darkness, and she gives Tim her phone number. He returns home to a distraught Harry, whose play’s opening night has been ruined by an actor forgetting his lines. Tim goes back in time to help the actor so the play is a triumph. However, when Tim tries to call Mary, he discovers that by going back to help Harry, the evening with her never occurred so he does not have her number. Recalling Mary’s obsession with Kate Moss, he attends a Kate Moss exhibition every day until he sees Mary. Having never met Tim, she is confused but allows him to join her and her friend.