The Repeat Year by Andrea Lochen
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Just released: May 7, 2013
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Genre: New Adult, Women's Fiction
Paperback: 400 pages
Rating: 4
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Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over—but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong…
After a year of hardships, including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend Phil, the prospect of her mother’s remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the hospital, Olive is ready to start fresh. But when she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend’s bed on New Year’s Day 2011—a day she has already lived—Olive’s world is turned upside down.
Shouldering a year of memories that no one else can recall, even Olive begins to question herself—until she discovers that she is not alone. Upon crossing paths with Sherry Witan, an experienced “repeater,” Olive learns that she has the chance to rewrite her future. Given the opportunity of a lifetime, Olive has to decide what she really wants. Should she make different choices, or accept her life as she knows it, flaws and all?
My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): think holistically
Loved this concept of an extended groundhog-kind-of-day. I liked how this book got me thinking of past and present experiences and how they can affect the future if mindful of those experiences.
* win a copy of this book on Goodreads here - offer ends May 31
* review copy courtesy of Summer Reading Road Trip 2013 the Summer Reading Reading Challenge sponsored by BookSparksPR
