If I Could Turn Back Time, Beth Harbison
If I Could Turn Back Time, Beth Harbison
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If I Could Turn Back Time
A Novel

Author: Beth Harbison

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2015

Synopsis

Told with Beth Harbison's wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently..."

Thirty-seven year old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. She made her fortune and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous, and she enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. But despite it all, she can't ignore the fact that she isn't necessarily happy. In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty.

On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and hard liquor. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off...

Suddenly Ramie is waking up, straining to understand a voice calling in the distance...It's her mother: "Wake up! You're going to be late for school again. I'm not writing a note this time..."

Ramie finds herself back on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, with a second chance to see the people she's lost and change the choices she regrets. How did she get back here? Has she gone off the deep end? Is she really back in time? Above all, she'll have to answer the question that no one else can: What it is that she really wants from the past, and for her future?

About Beth Harbison

Beth Harbison is the New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of a Shoe Addict, Shoe Addicts Anonymous, Hope in a Jar and Thin, Rich, Pretty. She is also a serious product junkie, with enough lip glosses, shampoos, conditioners, and foundations to lube every car on the streets of suburban D.C., where she lives with her husband, two children and dogs.

About Orlagh Cassidy

Orlagh Cassidy is the winner of the 2009 Best Voice in Children & Family Listening and the 2008 and 2011 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense. She’s narrated for Jacqueline Winspear, James Patterson, Erica Spindler, Beth Harbison, and Frank Herbert, among others. Cassidy’s Broadway credits include Present Laughter with Frank Langella, Our Country's Good, and Suddenly Last Summer.  She has appeared Off-Broadway in Bright Ideas and The Field at The Irish Rep (Drama Desk Nomination). She was "Doris Wolfe" on The Guiding Light and her other television appearances include Sex and the City, Law & Order, Law and Order SVU, and Elementary.  She also appeared in the films Purple Violets, Young Adult, and Definitely, Maybe.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liviania on August 12, 2015

It's hard to remember now why I picked up IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME. I think it was the promise of time travel, which I tend to enjoy. But the blurb hints at one of my major problems with the book. IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME falls into that old pattern of successful, self-made woman figures out what......more

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on July 26, 2015

If you had the opportunity to go back to high school to change your path in life, would you? This is the question that If I could Turn Back Time tries to answer. On the eve of her 38th birthday, while Sailing on a yacht with her friends and acquaintances, Ramie Phillips reflects on her life and the......more

Goodreads review by Tara - runningnreading on July 30, 2015

Beth Harbison always writes really fun stories; her description of Ramie waking up in her childhood home/room/bed, though, takes the cake. I immediately started thinking about what it would be like to wake up, with the mind and experiences that I have now, in my 18-year-old body and accompanying sit......more

Goodreads review by Rhiannon on July 28, 2015

Read my full review here: [URL not allowed] It took me forever to read this because I kept daydreaming! Seriously, what would you do if you suddenly woke up in your 18 year old body with all your current knowledge? Haven't we all asked ourselves, at one point or another, "If I......more

Goodreads review by Judy on July 24, 2016

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Beth Harbison delivers a poignant and witty story of a woman’s journey back to the past, IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME, coming in paperback June 14, 2016 (with a new 83/18 cupcakes adorable cover). R......more

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