Someone Elses Bucket List, Amy T. Matthews
Someone Elses Bucket List, Amy T. Matthews
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Someone Else's Bucket List

Author: Amy T. Matthews

Narrator: Brenda Scott Wlazlo

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

"A poignant look at how the bonds of sisterhood can shape our lives." —Namrata Patel, author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave

Readers of Josie Silver and Rebecca Serle will adore this bingeworthy, bittersweet P.S. I Love You for the digital age. After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman takes on the terrifying challenge of completing her sister's bucket list as the world watches, in a bid to save her family—and others—from the crippling medical debt her cancer battle left behind.

My dying wish is for you to finish my bucket list. I refuse to die without knowing this list will be completed. And I refuse to die without knowing my family will be okay . . .

Jodie Boyd is a shy and anxious twenty-something, completely unsure what to do with her life. Her older sister, Bree, is an adventurous, globe-trotting, hugely successful Instagram influencer with more than a million followers. She's the most alive person Jodie knows—up until Bree's unfathomable, untimely death from Leukemia. The Boyds are devastated, not to mention overwhelmed with medical debt. But Bree thought of everything—and soon, Jodie is shocked by a new post on her sister's Instagram feed.

The first of many Bree recorded in secret, the post foretells a jaw-dropping challenge for Jodie: to complete Bree's very public bucket list. From "Fly over Antarctica," to "Perform a walk-on cameo in a Broadway musical," if Jodie does it—and keeps all Bree's followers—a corporate sponsor will pay off the staggering medical debt. If she gains followers, the Boyds won't be the only ones to benefit. It's crazy. It's terrifying. It's impossible, immoral even, to refuse. So, despite the whole world watching, Jodie plunges in, never imagining that in death, her sister will teach her how to live, and that the last item on the list—"Fall in love"—may just prove to be the easiest.

"A moving story. This life-affirming tale reminds us that happiness is possible if we find the courage to reach for it." —Jamie Beck, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

"I loved Someone Else's Bucket List. It begins by breaking your heart then takes you by surprise by becoming uplifting and utterly galvanizing. Best of all, though, it's a stirring celebration of the power of sisterhood!" —Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

About Amy T. Matthews

Amy T. Matthews is a novelist and academic who also writes under the names Amy Barry and Tess LaSue. A former Chair and long-serving board member of Writers SA, she is currently a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Creative Writing at Flinders University and an Associate Member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie on August 11, 2023

Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews is a Blend of Family and Women's Fiction! Bree and Jodie Boyd are two twenty-something sisters. Bree, the oldest, is an Instagram influencer with a million plus followers, and younger sister Jodie is currently a quiet, anxiety ridden mess. Jodie's a mess b......more

Goodreads review by Violet on December 15, 2024

An outgoing and very popular social media influencer is diagnosed with terminal cancer & she decides to enlist her introvert sister to check off the bucket list that she sadly won't live to see completed. I love the premise of this book. The first 20% or so was SO sad and it took me awhile to get in......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on May 28, 2023

This was a wonderful book about grief. And while yes I think I think some parts of the premise seem ghoulish, but honestly when you’ve lost someone so close everything seems ghoulish and it isn’t that far of a stretch of the imagination (I live in America, lack of health care and turning sweet momen......more

Goodreads review by Desiree on April 09, 2023

Wow. Just wow. SO good! Pardon me while I go deal with my raging "bookover" 😂 Tender, sweet, emotional, and heartfelt. Jodie is such a sweet person, but so shy and unsure of herself. And Bree? You really here her voice and see her shining personality so strongly, even though you only meet her for fo......more

Goodreads review by Ashlee on December 06, 2022

When Bree Boyd dies of leukemia she leaves a mountain of medical debt to her family. As they struggle through the grief and work towards paying it off they find she's left them one last surprise. She's left her bucket list and asked her sister Jodie to finish the last few things she didn't get to do......more