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Once and Again

A Novel

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Once and Again

By: Rebecca Serle
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and Expiration Dates, a novel following a family of women with a singular gift: the opportunity to redo one moment in their lives

Lauren has spent a lot of her life waiting. She spent her childhood on her surfboard, waiting to catch the perfect wave. She waited a long time for her husband Leo. Now she and Leo are together waiting for those two lines on a pregnancy test that will tell Lauren she’s finally pregnant.

But many women wait for those things. Lauren has also spent her life waiting to use the gift that only the women in her family have: the opportunity, just once, to turn back time and reverse a bad decision, or a moment of catastrophic luck. When Lauren was fifteen, her mother Marcella reversed the car crash that killed Lauren’s father, and ever since then, both Marcella and Lauren have been extra cautious around Dave, and perhaps extra brittle with each other. Even though Dave is alive and healthy, and out on the Malibu waves every day.

Lauren and Leo’s marriage has been rock-steady for the three years they’ve been married, but their fertility journey is starting to wear on both of them. When Leo takes a six-week job in New York, Lauren temporarily moves back to her childhood house. She’ll spend time with her dad, spend time on the water, and try not think about the relationship with her mother she wishes she had. What Lauren doesn’t expect is to run into the love of her youth: fellow surfer Stone, back home for the first time in ten years. Since he left and broke Lauren’s heart. Now Lauren’s thinking about all the choices that have brought her to this moment in her life—and wondering if one of them should be undone.

A wise and luminous novel about mothers and daughters, the complexity of marriage, and the choices we make that come to define our lives, Once and Again is Rebecca Serle at her finest.

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This was good. Not great. The character development of Leo and Stone both felt lacking. The book felt a little rushed. Could’ve been longer, imo and would’ve been better. I did not like how POV switched chapter to chapter but there was no distinguishing at the beginning of a new chapter. The use of the last ticket was a poor choice. I’d get this from the library. Not worth a credit, imo.

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A typical story of love and life and enjoying the hand one is dealt. What would you go back and change if you could? Loren decides to live life as it comes. I would offer her life wasn't tragic enough to truly propel a with out a doubt do over. Good read though bit of a slow burn until the end. Great secondary characters.

Slow burn

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This was so good!!! I LOVED the story and found it to be really heartfelt and such a good perceptive on life

Loved this

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Big fan of the author and narrator but this story was really drippy and the way the main character acted (I won’t spoil it, but the thing at the center of the plot) was absurd and illogical and literally made me exclaim out loud in protest of the idiocy. Skip this one.

Great narration but dumb story

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It was well written and the storyline was engaging. Believable characters. I didn’t know where it was going. I did not love the ending but it’s not my story to end

Sweet Slightly Supernatural Story

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