Jillian is a housewife and mom who has lost her identity in motherhood. She gives up her career to become a stay at home mom. She is unhappy and unfulfilled in her life and marriage after 7 years in the suburbs. She goes back in time to before she was married with the knowledge of the future an...
I enjoyed this as an easy, predictable read, but I'm longing for more of an emotional connection to a lot of the characters. Jillian's struggle in her present life is never explored, I was left wondering why she was so unhappy, what led to this depressed yearning for her old life and what happene...
Once I got past the rather disturbing part that Tilly was so excited about yet another prom to attend, I was able to get involved in this book pretty quickly and I liked it a lot. It was a good book about taking a good look at your life to figure out what you wanted.I completely understood that ...
I wanted to read this because I knew AWS had self published it and that alone intrigued me. Also, I like supporting her however I can because she's an incredibly generous writer to her readers and to other writers. Parts of this book made me roll my eyes and I caught some editing misses as well. ...
I'd heard great things about Allison Winn Scotch.Perhaps this wasn't the right book to read first.None of the characters feel authentic, and the big! emotional! reveals! are, quite frankly, anti-climatic.I still can't figure out why her family decided the amnesiac heroine shouldn't learn anything...
This book's premise is very thought-provoking- a woman, Nell, struggles with amnesia after surviving a plane crash. I didn't enjoy much of the story thanks to the unlikable characters. One touch I liked - when Nell's memories began to re-surface, it was her repressed memories that she recalled fi...
In this hopeful, humorous, and astonishingly deft debut, Allison Winn Scotch explores what happens when a young woman thinks she's lost everything that matters—and ends up discovering what's truly important. This is a novel that will leave you taking stock of what's important in your own life . ....
He finds this calming almost, being here, comforting her, playing hero. That’s why he got into medicine in the first place, though plastic surgery isn’t exactly saving lives, and that’s also why he didn’t say no to Bea when she called and said, Please help. “I should have ...
Cover design by Jennifer O’Connor The Theory of Opposites is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, institutions, or real persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictiti...