Tuesday, May 16, 2023

If I Could Turn Back Time: A Novel

Shirley J.             Adult Fiction                        Head Trauma, Time Travel, Getting a Do-Over on the past

If I Could Turn Back Time: A Novel by Beth Harbison    352 pages

Ramie Phillips gets the chance to do what so many wish we could at some point, she gets to go from her current 38 year old self who is successful, parties with the rich and famous but often feels "what if she had taken a different path?"   The universe or her fairy godmother hears her thoughts and while drinking champagne at a party on a yacht, she goes to dive off a diving board into the pool but hits her head and ends up going back in time to her 18 year old self to relive the time before graduation when she broke up with the love of her life and now she gets a do-over to see what her future would be with him in it, added bonus, she gets to see her Dad alive again and try to save him from the cancer that takes his life.   Problem: will she be stuck in the past and have to live everything over knowing what she knows now?    Very well done story unlike other similar theme fictions.   I recommend this one to high schoolers on up.
 

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