If I Had My Time Again
by Linda Green

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The magical, heartbreaking, and life-affirming new novel from Richard & Judy BESTSELLER Linda Green ❤️‍🩹 Perfect for fans of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, Mike Gayle, and Ruth Jones! 🤍✨ How would you live your life differently if you had a second chance? 💫

Emily, Carl, and Jules have all ‘gone before their time’. After dying on the same day in Halifax, West Yorkshire, they each wake up in a room in a hotel on the outskirts of town. They’re instructed to meet in the basement headquarters of film production company ‘End Credits’, where no-nonsense producer Suzi tells them their lives have been secretly filmed, and they must edit their own biopic before they can move on.

There are only three; they can’t prevent their own deaths or anyone else’s, they can’t kill anyone, but they can make a director’s cut – one change which will alter everything that comes after.

With the chance to undo their regrets and explore life’s infinite possibilities, what will they choose?

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Favorite Quotes:

Someone started hoovering outside. Which was when it occurred to me that my actions had presumably booked a one-way ticket to Hell. In which case, this wasn’t bad at all. There’d been no one to do the hoovering for me at home. If this place came with a cleaner, it may as well be Heaven as far as I was concerned, and the whole ‘do not sin or you’ll end up in Hell’ thing must have been invented to prevent overcrowding.

‘No, we have permanent staff as cleaners,’ replied Suzi. ‘People who took up seats on trains with their bags or put their feet up on them. And those who played their music or YouTube videos loudly enough for the whole carriage to hear. They thought they’d got away with it, but they’re doing payback time here.’ ‘So, is that like community service for the dead?’ asked Jules.

I was going to see Harry again in real life. He wouldn’t be able to see me but maybe he’d be able to sense I was there. It would be like Ghost but without the pottery, which was good as I hated getting my hands dirty.

It made great footage. I think Faz is putting it to music. Nothing I’ve ever heard of but he’s too young to know “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. When I mentioned Neil Diamond, he thought it was a made-up TikTok name for a drag queen.

It was far harder to witness other people’s pain than to deal with your own.

I judged you, didn’t I? I was so full of pity for myself that I didn’t have any left for you.

My Review:

I have got to get it in gear as this is my first Linda Green read and, oh man, I have been missing out! To say I adored this is an understatement. This was brilliantly clever, ingeniously creative, and delightfully amusing as well as poignant and thoughtfully parsed. This gal has mad skills, and I greatly covet her craft while also greedily plotting to amass all her words.

The storylines were well-crafted, and her agile writing style was emotive, engaging, highly absorbing, and deceptively evocative. I snorted with glee at the clever snark and chortled into my wine goblet more than a few times. She also squeezed my heart at unexpected intervals as well. The character development was, pardon my pun, to die for.

Ms. Green has a new acolyte and die-hard fan girl!

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Linda Green is the million-copy bestselling author of thirteen novels. Her latest novel, If I Had My Time Again, was published by Boldwood Books on March 13. It’s a warm, witty, emotional novel set in the afterlife and asks the question what would be the one change you’d make if you had your time again?

Her previous novel with Boldwood, The Woman with All the Answers, tells the story of Michelle, a perimenopausal woman struggling with family crises, who discovers a friend in the unlikely form of her smart speaker, who reveals herself to be Pauline from Halifax. Linda’s previous novels have included the Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller, The Last Thing She Told Me, and the Radio 2 Book Club pick, One Moment.

Linda has lived in West Yorkshire since 2001.