I loved that this book is so current and topical. The issues, the social media saturation, the over-working, the stumbling through life recovering from a global pandemic (which isn’t overly mentioned just referenced), everything about this book is topical so much so that Emma could be any one of us. Except for the rather bizarre situation she is in whereby she is reliving the same day again, over and over and over…
I read this fairly quickly, it was an easy read but with so much depth, emotion and plenty of current and hard-hitting themes. It’s a real challenge to think about what you, the reader, would do differently, if you were given the day over and over again. There are so many underlying messages that can be taken away by anybody in many different ways. It’s described as One Day meets Groundhog Day – but it’s so much more than that!
Expected publication: March 7th 2023
About the Book
One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant 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.
About The Author
esca Major is a novelist and screenwriter. She has written 13 novels under different names and her books have been published in more than 10 different countries. She has been nominated for both the RNA’s Romantic Comedy Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award. She has an original TV series in development with the BBC.
Her next book Maybe Next Time — a love story about Emma, a stressed working mother who loses her husband at the end of a busy day only to wake to find him alive the next morning — is out in Spring 2023 in both the UK and the US with HarperCollins.
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