Maybe Next Time
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
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3.5 • 13 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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 change the course of her life.
Dan is Emma’s person. She’s known it since the first time she saw him dressed in lederhosen on the tube.
On their fifteen year ‘dateversary’, Emma texts a list of everything she should have told Dan that morning.
Tell the kids to remember their homework…
And their gloves.
Can you defrost some sausages?
Emma just forgets to write the most important words of all – I love you – and by the end of the day everything changes.
Or does it? Emma is given the chance to rewrite their future – if she can just figure out their past…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This touching and profound novel about a woman reliving the worst Monday of her life over and over again reminds us to treasure the little moments in life. When overworked mom Emma loses her husband, Dan, in an accident following a colossally terrible day, she ends up repeating that same day from the beginning in an endless, Groundhog Day–style loop. As Emma strives to find the perfect combination of actions and words to provide a happy outcome for her family and friends—while setting much-needed boundaries in the rest of her life—author Cesca Major gets to the marrow of the constant anxiety of living in today’s world. We loved discovering the many ways that Emma reconnects with important people and cuts ties with toxic ones. With tons of relatable characters and situations, Maybe Next Time is a fast-paced, cathartic look at the many possible outcomes of saying what we truly think.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Major (The Silent Hours) draws on Groundhog Day for a poignant tale of love, regret, and second chances involving a London couple. High-powered literary agent Emma, married with two children to hopeless romantic Dan, has forgotten to write him a letter on Monday, December 3—the day the two met on a London tube. Dan has come to expect these letters each year, and after a tiff, he goes out to walk the dog—and gets hit by a car and dies. Or does he? Emma wakes up the next morning and suddenly it's Monday, December 3, all over again, and she has a second chance to show Dan how much she loves him. For months, Emma and Dan are caught in a time loop of endless Mondays, and despite Emma's most fervent efforts—ignoring the constant pings from WhatsApp is a significant sacrifice—Dan dies every time, whether by car, heart attack, or other circumstance. Things culminate in a surprising coincidence, and Major caps it all off with an ambiguous ending. Well-drawn supporting characters add depth, in particular Emma's sister-in-law, Hattie, with whom the couple is especially close, and whom Emma forces herself to make more time for as well. Women's fiction fans will love this tearjerker.
Customer Reviews
Waste of time
Maybe if this was in the category of $5.99 and under I would have enjoyed it more? The repetition just killed me, and the ending was such a disappointment.