Come Again, Robert Webb
Come Again, Robert Webb
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Come Again

Author: Robert Webb

Narrator: Olivia Colman

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when she wakes up and finds herself eighteen again in this "highly entertaining" story of second chances (Guardian) by the star of Peep Show

Kate's husband Luke -- the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago -- died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friend and lost her job, and everything is starting to fall apart.
One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992 on the first day of orientation. And this is the day she meets Luke.
Kate knows how he died, and that he's already ill. But Luke is not the man that she lost: he's still a boy -- the annoying nineteen-year-old English student she first met. If they can fall in love again despite everything, she might just be able to save him. She's going to try to do everything exactly the same . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by lazybookconqueror on April 26, 2020

A beautiful and magical tale of grief. Come Again tells the story of Kate, the IT department head for a company that does Online Reputational Management. Basically, they are responsible to make bad press ''disappear'' using SEO and other algorithms, so when you search someone on Google, the bad stuf......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on April 14, 2020

Oh how I loved Come Again ❤️ Actor and comedian Robert Webb has written an emotional and witty story of grief, self discovery and time travel and I couldn’t put it down. The characters in this book are wonderful. The main character Kate begins the book in a very dark place, grieving the loss of her......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 28, 2020

Come Again is a cute book. The book starts with Kate's husband, Luke dying. She then wakes up the day she first met Luke. She tries to save him from dying. Can Kate save Luke? Can Kate and Luke fall in love twice even though they are both different people the second time around? Fans of The Two Lives......more

Goodreads review by Diane on May 07, 2020

I could just about deal with some of the clunky writing and two-dimensional characters as the initial premise of the story was intriguing. However, it feels very much like the last section of this book was written as a deadline rapidly approached. The tonal shift it undergoes is ill-advised and unsu......more

Goodreads review by Connor's Library on April 04, 2020

It pains me to only give this book a 2 star review. The book was split into 3 parts, part 1 and 2 were wonderful to read, it was interesting to see the format and the characters as they experienced the story. Part 1: Kate being depressed and suicidal following the death of her husband who she loves wi......more


Quotes

"It's well paced, nicely written and highly entertaining. It's also a very rum concoction indeed -- as if someone had sandwiched a David Nicholls novel in the middle of a comedy thriller, using a Tardis."—The Guardian

"A genre-defying time-travel tale -- part adventure, part love story, part comedy, part dissertation on bereavement ... a breathtakingly insightful evocation of grief."—Sunday Times (UK)

"Robert Webb's effortlessly enjoyable debut novel is soaked in and a wry comment on nostalgia ... his execution is smart, unexpected and full of pop cultural nous. It's also a ripping adventure yarn ... Tender, thoughtful and terrific fun."—Metro (UK)

"Splendidly bleak, fabulously Nineties, and enjoyable."
Daily Mail (UK)

"Come Again is excellent: moving, funny, and packed with great characters. It also has a slam-bang action ending."—Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series

"Funny, brilliant, clever and unpredictable; I gobbled it up."—Jenny Colgan, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner

Praise for HOW NOT TO BE A BOY
"Quite simply brilliant. I (genuinely) cried. I (genuinely) laughed out loud. It's profound, touching, personal yet universal . . . I loved it"
J.K. ROWLING

"With enormous poignancy and insight . . . Webb's early portrait of himself as a hapless underdog navigating the boulder-strewn path of masculinity is vividly drawn and very funny . . . Echoes of Adrian Mole"
Guardian

"Takes us deftly from hilarity to heart-stopping hurt . . . A truly great read, full of heart"
DAWN FRENCH

"Frank and compelling ... Laugh-out-loud funny ... also, in parts, blink-back-tears sad. Why would I blink back tears rather than give full rein to the emotion? Well, Webb can explain"
Mail On Sunday

"Written with wit and clarity, How Not To Be a Boy is a funny, rueful, truthful book. I enjoyed every page"
STEPHEN FRY