Time of My Life - by Allison Winn Scotch (Paperback)

About the Book

Jillian Westfield, a young wife and mother, gets a chance to find out what life could be like if she had made different choices. With hindsight, Jillian has the chance to discover what if once and for all--and to decide which life is the one she really wants.

Book Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A clever, entertaining look at the compromises women make--and the dangers of getting what you asked for."--People

Jillian Westfield has a life straight out of the women's magazines she obsessively reads. She's got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, and the clutterfree closets out of Real Simple. With her investment-banker husband behind the wheel and her cherubic eighteen-month-old in the backseat, hers could be the family in the magazines' Range Rover ads.

Yet somehow all of the how-to magazine stories in the world can't seem to fix her faltering marriage or stop her from asking "What if?"

Then one morning Jillian wakes up seven years in the past. She's back in her Manhattan apartment. She's back in her fast-paced job. And she's still with Jackson, the ex-boyfriend, and star of her what-if fantasies.

Armed with twenty-twenty hindsight, she's free to choose all over again. She can reconnect to the mother who abandoned her, she can use ad campaigns from her future to wow her clients, and she can fix the fights that doomed her relationship with Jackson.

Or can she?

Praise for Time of My Life

"A hilarious read."--Redbook

"[Jillian] is easy to understand, a woman trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life. Scotch is a fluent, spirited writer."--Boston Globe

"A fantastic, often funny novel."--Hallmark Magazine

"Insightful and honest, Winn Scotch keeps it light but delves into the dark doubts of the road not taken."--Family Circle

Review Quotes

Named a Top 10 Must-Read for the Season by The Today Show

"Scotch's novel is a clever, entertaining look at the compromises women make - and the dangers of getting what you asked for."
--People

"After this hilarious read, you may just return to your crazy-busy routine a little happier."
--Redbook

"Perfect to read with friends. A book we love....The kind of unputdownable book you'll really hope gets made into a movie."
--Cosmopolitan

"[Jillian] is easy to understand, a woman trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life. Scotch is a fluent, spirited writer."
--Boston Globe

"Book pick of the month. Insightful and honest, Winn Scotch keeps it light but delves in the dark doubts of the road not taken."
--Family Circle

"A must-read. A fantastic, often funny novel."
--Hallmark Magazine

"An engaging, fast-moving, high-concept drama. Scotch keeps one dexterous step ahead of page-flipping readers eager to guess the outcome."
--Publishers Weekly

"Scotch's second book shows a writer coming into her own, a storyteller who doesn't take the easy way out, and a woman with a fine understanding of human nature."
--Booklist

"Time of My Life is a fabulous, madcap read, but don't be fooled. Allison Winn Scotch's narrator is wrestling with some tough issues: How do I find my place in the world? Can I become a wife and mother without losing myself? Would I have been happier if I had chosen another path? Scotch's book is hilarious and true. I loved it."
--Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Forgive Me

"I loved this book! Time of My Life is funny and delightful and honest in the way only the best novels can be. I read it all in one delicious sitting."
--Laura Dave, author of London Is the Best City in America and The Divorce Party

"Time of My Life will keep you reading all night and guessing till the very end. An honest and engaging tale about how hindsight may not be twenty-twenty and how our decisions are rarely black and white. I loved it."
--Julie Buxbaum, author of The Opposite of Love

About the Author

ALLISON WINN SCOTCH is the author of the novel The Department of Lost and Found. Her work has also appeared in Parents, Glamour, and Redbook. She is at work on her next novel.