The Repeat Year, Andrea Lochen
The Repeat Year, Andrea Lochen
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The Repeat Year

Author: Andrea Lochen

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2013

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over—but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong.…After a year of hardships, including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend, Phil, the prospect of her mother’s remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the hospital, Olive is ready to start fresh. But when she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend’s bed on New Year’s Day 2011—a day she has already lived—Olive’s world is turned upside down. Shouldering a year of memories that no one else can recall, even Olive begins to question herself—until she discovers that she is not alone. Upon crossing paths with Sherry Witan, an experienced “repeater,” Olive learns that she has the chance to rewrite her future. Given the opportunity of a lifetime, Olive has to decide what she really wants. Should she make different choices, or accept her life as she knows it, flaws and all?

About Andrea Lochen

Andrea Lochen earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. While there, she won a Hopwood Novel Award for a draft of The Repeat Year. She currently lives in suburban Milwaukee with her husband and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanne on December 05, 2021

Better than a normal 3 star read (I usually give a book 3 stars if I plan on not re-reading it, but was good). I think that I might have liked this story even more if it was the first of the books from this author, not the last. Andrea Lochen takes a situation that we (I) have read about/watched fil......more

Goodreads review by Sherri on April 19, 2017

I really enjoyed this book. If you woke up one New Years Day and you actually had to repeat the previous year, how would you react? Would you repeat the year the same exact way or change some things for the better?......more

Goodreads review by Nita on May 25, 2013

"The Repeat Year" is a very engaging story of a young woman, Olive, getting the chance to undo some bad decisions she made in her life. Waking up on New Years Day, 2011, when it should be New Years Day, 2012,it takes her a while to come to grips with the fact that she actually is reliving a year tha......more

Goodreads review by Annie on May 21, 2013

Andrea Lochen astonished me by managing to create a story about traveling back in time to relive 2011. She was so succinct in her story-telling that she made this possibility truly believable, needing very little explanation to understand the premise. I know other novelists that have written about t......more

Goodreads review by Steph on June 29, 2013

This is a wonderful debut novel by Lochen. If you buy ONE book this summer this is the one to purchase! The premise of a woman who is given a cosmic do over to relive the last year of her life is at once engrossing and intriguing. The main character Olive Watson is someone you will cheer for and Ol......more