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Come Again

Written by: Robert Webb
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
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Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when she wakes up and finds herself 18 again in this "highly entertaining" story of second chances (Guardian) by the star of Peep Show.

Kate's husband Luke - the man she loved from the moment she met him 28 years ago - died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friend and lost her job, and everything is starting to fall apart.

One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is 18 again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992 on the first day of orientation. And this is the day she meets Luke.

Kate knows how he died, and that he's already ill. But Luke is not the man that she lost: he's still a boy - the annoying 19-year-old English student she first met. If they can fall in love again despite everything, she might just be able to save him. She's going to try to do everything exactly the same....

©2020 Robert Webb (P)2020 Little, Brown & Company Coming of Age Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Comedy
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What the critics say

"Splendidly bleak, fabulously Nineties, and enjoyable." (Daily Mail (UK))

"A genre-defying time-travel tale - part adventure, part love story, part comedy, part dissertation on bereavement...a breathtakingly insightful evocation of grief." (Sunday Times (UK))

"Funny, brilliant, clever and unpredictable; I gobbled it up." (Jenny Colgan, USA Today best-selling author of The Bookshop on the Corner)

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Fun story, well written, brilliantly narrated

I can start with the statement I haven't enjoyed any book this much in years. So good.

Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. They've worked together on TV projects (both are in my favorite comdey sketch from Mitchell and Webb "Avocado" ) and he couldn't have asked a better actress to narrate his little fictional masterpiece. She brings all characters to life in your head as if they are different people speaking out loud. Scenes are set, feelings are identifiable. Wonderfully British.

Robert Webb has written much more than a time traveling, dream or not a dream?, parallel universe trope you could worry it might be. It's entertaining, new and thought provoking and small twists and turns keep you guessing. The female and male characters are ALL fleshed out and real feeling. Olivia Colman seamlessly, flawlessly, switches in real conversational timing between an array of accurate accents from Welsh, London Sloane, Cockney/East End, Russian, Sheffield etc. without once giving me earache. The writing is so solid, it lends itself to be read out loud and be believed.

It helps a bit, maybe, that I too was at University 1992-1995 in an English university town (not York, mind). And that's exactly how the world was then, cheap drinks, meeting people and being all strangers together, the music, the youthful energy and hedonism (plus no smart phones; if your friend disappeared, that was it til you jumped into them again). And how different it would if we went back in our mid 40s! Mind bending!

Listen to it, it's great.

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delightful - a feel-good story for troubling times

The author and performer of this story used to be in a comedy team together. It’s possible the author wrote this story with Olivia Colman in mind, or even directly for her. It’s entirely “her”.
I’m a fan of both of them so this find was comedy gold. It’s also a thought provoking tale of love, parallel universes, and friendship. I couldn’t stop listening - so much fun!

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