On My Amazon Wishlist this week is a novel that sounds a bit like Groundhog Day, The Repeat Year by Andrea Lochen. It came to my attention recently when the publicist working on the novel emailed me to ask if I’d like to review it, which I obviously did, but can’t as I live in Tenerife, and generally US publishers don’t send to Europe, sadly. So it’s on my Amazon wishlist and I’ll be buying it when it’s released in May because it sounds fabulous!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 andattempt 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?
