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The Things We Lost

The Things We Lost

Author:

Maggie Giles

Book Basics

Audience:

Adult

Genre:

General Fiction

Sub-genre:

Women's Fiction

Type of Publisher: 

traditional small press

Year:

2022

Book distribution:

Digital, Audiobook, Paperback

Story Details

Main Protagonist:

Adult

POV:

First-person

Timelines:

Multiple Timelines

Special Devices:

Text messages

Setting: (place and time)

City:

Toronto

State:

Alabama

Country:

Canada

Story Timeframe:

2000-2019, 2020-present (no COVID), General Contemporary

Logline: 

A foolish affair gives a mom an unexpected do-over, sending her ten years back to an alternate reality. Her kids don’t exist, her best friend hates her and even stranger, a formerly-dead friend is still alive. Desperate to see her kids, she questions whether her old life is worth the death of another.

Themes: 

Loss, What If, Is the Grass Greener, Blackmail, Murder, Grateful for what you have

Keywords: 

what if, time travel, alternate past, loss, family, female friendships,

Book Blurb: 

Maddie Butler has been haunted for fourteen years. After the suspicious death of a friend when she was twenty-two, Maddie tried to move on, convincing herself there was nothing she could have done. Now in an unfulfilling marriage, she realized how much the guilt has led to an unhappy life.

When she runs into her ex-boyfriend, the memories come flying back in full force. Burdened with regret and unhappiness, Maddie wonders how her life could have been different. The next morning, she wakes up twenty-six years old and in a completely different life. Her daughters don't exist, her husband is nowhere to be found, and her friend is still alive, four years after her funeral.

As Maddie navigates this new world, she realizes she is the product of her own unhappiness. But is this new do-over exactly what she needs, even if it means never seeing her daughters again?

For fans of Amy Impellizzeri's Lemongrass Hope and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Maybe In Another Life, that will have you wondering, what if?

Notes from the Author:

Trigger Warnings: Neglected Marriage, Adultery, Murder, Blackmail

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