Item: The Time of My Life
Rating: 4.00
Author: kozbisa

by Cecelia Ahern

The stunning and magical new novel from the Number One bestselling author of PS, I Love You

From the author of tear-jerker PS, I Love You comes another unputdownable read.

Lying on Lucy Silchester’s carpet one day when she returns from work is a gold envelope. Inside is an invitation – to a meeting with Life. Her life. It turns out she's been ignoring it and it needs to meet with her face to face.

It sounds peculiar, but Lucy’s read about this in a magazine. Anyway, she can’t make the date: she’s much too busy dodging her job, skipping out on her friends and avoiding her family.

But Lucy’s life isn’t what it seems. Some of the choices she’s made – and stories she’s told – aren’t what they seem either. From the moment she meets the man who introduces himself as her life, her stubborn half-truths are going to be revealed in all their glory – unless Lucy learns to tell the truth about what really matters to her.

Lucy Silchester has an appointment with her life – and she’s going to have to keep it.

Touching, warm, funny and poignant, Cecelia Ahern's new novel explores what happens when you stop paying attention to your life.

Rating: 4.5 stars

Another fun one from Cecelia Ahern. I loved the concept of Lucy's life being a person, and that this person visually reflected how Lucy felt about her life, or how much she put into living her life. It is interesting to read about someone being called out for lying to themselves by their own life. Lucy convinced herself of many things, but they were all built on lies, the biggest being that she was happy with her life. So, when she first met the manifestation her life, face to face, it was not described in a complementary way, and Lucy could not bear to be in the same room with her life.

I found the book very funny, but also thoughtful.

The Time of My Life

by Cecelia Ahern

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on Apr 30, 2016

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