The Hill Road is a challenging read. Not your usual time travel story. I was confused throughout, but that seemed appropriate since the characters were also lost. I'm not sure I totally understood the message the author was trying to convey. Maybe it warrants another go. Not right now though too many on my list. This is an author whose work I admire, but whose life is troubling. I'm making my way through all of his work slowly but surely. His past has made many of his titles nearly impossible to find despite his having won the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature and being called the best English writer of Children's books of the 20th century. ( )