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Maybe Next Time: A Reese's Book Club Pick
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A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.
It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won’t go near her. Even the dog seems sad.
She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with “emergencies”; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp groups about the kids’ sports, school, playdates, all of it. Her whole day is frantic—what else is new—and as she rushes back through the door for dinner, Dan is still upset. They fight, and he walks out, desolate, dragging their poor dog around the block. Just as she realizes it is their anniversary and she has forgotten, again, she hears the screech of brakes.
Dan is dead.
The next day Emma wakes up… and Dan is alive. And it’s Monday again.
And again.
And again.
Emma tries desperately to change the course of fate by doing different things each time she wakes up: leaving WhatsApp, telling her boss where to get off, writing to Dan, listening to her kids, reaching out to forgotten friends, getting drunk and buying out Prada. But will Emma have the chance to find herself again, remember what she likes about her job, reconnect with her children, love her husband? Will this be enough to change the fate they seem destined for?
A moving “What if” story of what it is to be a woman in the modern world—never feeling we’re getting it quite right—about learning to slow down and appreciate life that is sure to resonate with women’s fiction readers.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780063239920
EAN:
9780063239920
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
384
Authors:
Cesca Major
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Published Date: 2023-07-03
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I’ve been working through the “Reese Book club” list and this… this book… how was it picked? The entire book was a sad depressing Groundhog Day. There were never any moments of joy or reprieve and the first two parts took forever.I’m all forWomen’s fiction and character growth, but it took almost 85% for the character to truly grow and make lasting changes (more than just ignoring certain people Or texts).That ending was not a good “what?!?” Moment for me. I struggled to finish this depressing story only to have a lack luster ending.
I’ve been working through the “Reese Book club” list and this… this book… how was it picked? The entire book was a sad depressing Groundhog Day. There were never any moments of joy or reprieve and the first two parts took forever.I’m all forWomen’s fiction and character growth, but it took almost 85% for the character to truly grow and make lasting changes (more than just ignoring certain people Or texts).That ending was not a good “what?!?” Moment for me. I struggled to finish this depressing story only to have a lack luster ending.
Beginning of the book was tedious and painful to read but then (spoiler alert) Ben dies and I wanted to see what happened. It unfortunately just keeps happening and sure she gains clarity and becomes the mom and wife she should have been but really all that to not have a real ending?
Beginning of the book was tedious and painful to read but then (spoiler alert) Ben dies and I wanted to see what happened. It unfortunately just keeps happening and sure she gains clarity and becomes the mom and wife she should have been but really all that to not have a real ending?
What an emotional ride!I was so happy to not know what this book was about before reading it (went solely based on the review of a trusted friend) and I’m so glad. The surprise (for me) twist of what this book is actually about made it so much better! It’s a love story in its most basic form, but you walk away with a beautiful and essential reminder that every day is a gift. The people you come across are gifts. The experience of life itself is a gift. Don’t waste it.Reese Witherspoon was right with this one!READ IT!!
