Once and Again - by Rebecca Serle (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.

Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren's father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won't be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models--and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

Then one summer, Lauren's husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn't expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren's first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.

As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.

Review Quotes

Outstanding Praise for Rebecca Serle
"A maestro of love in all its forms." - Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow

"A romantic gem. Grabs you on page one and never lets go." --Laura Dave, on Expiration Dates

"As clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won't forget." -- Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, on In Five Years

"Heartbreaking, redemptive, and authentic." --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author, on In Five Years

"Serle has a knack for writing beautiful stories that speak to the anxiety of forging a new road for oneself, of being brave enough to start all over." --Bustle

"Serle is known for her powerful stories that tug at the heartstrings." - Woman's World

Brilliant, original, and sure to leave you shoving a copy into someone's hands. --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Once and Again, Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com.