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2023 Target Book of the Year Finalist

Perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle''s One Italian Summer and Josie Silver''s The Two Lives of Lydia Bird.

Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single instant? And can hope be found in every moment after?

On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker''s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next moment, Olivia resurfaces, joyously splashing.

What would I do if she didn''t come up? Kate wonders. How would I live without her?

In another set of circumstances that hold a different fate, Kate doesn''t have to wonder. Because in that other world, in the pulse-pounding seconds after Olivia goes under, she doesn''t come back up.

Told in parallel timelines, Kate begins to live two lives--one in wh

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Intriguing, thought-provoking . . . Rea Frey breathes life into universal themes concerning love, family, parenthood, forgiveness, grief, and second chances. * The New York Journal of Books *

The Other Year

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      Publisher HarperCollins Focus
      Published 12 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9781400243105
      978-1400243105
      ISBN-10 1400243106
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      2023 Target Book of the Year Finalist

      Perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle''s One Italian Summer and Josie Silver''s The Two Lives of Lydia Bird.

      Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single instant? And can hope be found in every moment after?

      On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker''s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next moment, Olivia resurfaces, joyously splashing.

      What would I do if she didn''t come up? Kate wonders. How would I live without her?

      In another set of circumstances that hold a different fate, Kate doesn''t have to wonder. Because in that other world, in the pulse-pounding seconds after Olivia goes under, she doesn''t come back up.

      Told in parallel timelines, Kate begins to live two lives--one in wh

      Trade Review
      Intriguing, thought-provoking . . . Rea Frey breathes life into universal themes concerning love, family, parenthood, forgiveness, grief, and second chances. * The New York Journal of Books *

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