
The Repeat Year
Author: Andrea Lochen
Narrator: Amy McFadden
Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/07/2013

Author: Andrea Lochen
Narrator: Amy McFadden
Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/07/2013
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.
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
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
"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
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
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