Once and Again

Once and Again

Author: Rebecca Serle Listening Length: 6h 49m

New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle, the author behind “heartbreaking, redemptive, and authentic” (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) modern classic In Five Years, returns with an unforgettable tale of a family of women with an astonishing gift: the ability to redo one moment in their lives. T...

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The days and weeks after the accident are euphoric—Marcella has done it, she has successfully taken it back—but once the shock wears off she is left with a low-simmer depression that turns, in a matter of hours, into a boil.

One morning she is clipping roses looking at her husband reading, and by the afternoon she is crouched in the corner of her bathroom clutching her stomach in the midst of what can only be described as a panic attack.

Because she understands, now. The flip side. The thing, perhaps, her mother was trying to protect her from. Life offered the worst to her, and she could undo it. What will happen now that she cannot?

She goes to Sylvia. She asks how she can live like this, what happened after her mother spent hers.