<![CDATA[Time of My Life: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Time of My Life: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255574730m/3521419.jpg 3521419 3 Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She’s got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen in Parents. With her successful investment banker husband behind the wheel and her cherubic eighteen-month-old in the backseat, hers could be the family in the magazines’ glossy Range Rover ads. Yet somehow all of the how-to magazine stories in the world can’t seem to fix her faltering marriage, banish the tedium of days spent changing diapers, or stop her from asking, “What if?” Then one morning Jillian wakes up seven years in the past. Before her daughter was born. Before she married Henry. Suddenly she’s back in her post–grad school Ikea-furnished Manhattan apartment. She’s back in her fast-paced job with the advertising agency. And she’s still with Jackson, the ex-boyfriend and star of her what-if fantasies. Armed with twenty-twenty hindsight, she’s free to choose all over again. She can use the zippy ad campaigns from her future to wow the clients and bosses in her present. She can reconnect with the mother who abandoned her so many years before. She can fix the fights at every juncture that doomed her relationship with Jackson. Or can she? With each new choice setting off a trajectory of unforeseen consequences, Jillian soon realizes that getting to happily ever after is more complicated than changing the lines in her part of the script. Happiness, it turns out, isn’t an either-or proposition. As she closes in on all the things she thought she wanted, Jillian must confront the greatest what-if of all: What if the problem was never Henry or Jackson, but her? Sharp, funny, and heartwarming, Time of My Life will appeal to anyone who has ever wanted to redo the past and will leave readers pondering, “Do we get the reality we deserve?” 3563133 7 10 2008 Time of My Life: A Novel total:1002|5:120|4:357|3:383|2:127|1:15| 1002 3446 2061 288 3 2 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 13:39:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 09:16:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Oct 09 13:10:39 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 13:11:56 -0700 2008
Allison is a wonderful author and I know my friends will read this book cover to cover and love every word.

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Endearing Jillian seems to have it all: a loving lawyer husband, a healthy daughter, and a lovely home. But cleaning spit-up and dealing with her husband's long office hours have begun to wear on Jill, and it hardly helps that she's just learned ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 19:25:28 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 19:31:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 12:43:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:56:15 -0700 2009
Excellently written and surprising at the end! A wonderful story to get lost in for awhile.

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Jillian has the seemingly perfect suburban life with a supportive husband and a cute toddler that she gets to stay home with. But underneath the facade, she's dying. Slowly withering away trying to keep up the perfect-wife-and-mother act. She can't help but think wha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:45:02 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:50:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3521419