Maybe Next Time

Cesca Major · 2023

A woman relives the day her husband dies, over and over, and each repetition shows her what she had stopped noticing.

Emma is a literary agent whose marriage has thinned into logistics, and on her wedding anniversary her husband dies. Then she wakes and it is that morning again. Major uses the loop for grief rather than comedy: each repetition Emma notices something she had stopped seeing. It is a device that could be glib and is not, because the fix required is not saving him but paying attention.

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Reese Witherspoon

Actress, Producer & Book Club Founder

This fascinating story follows overworked & overwhelmed London literary agent, Emma, who finds herself trapped in a time loop

Book Club · November 2023

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