Издания и произведения

Элис без пяти минут сорок. Она живет свою неприметную жизнь и работает в выпендрежной школе Верхнего Вест-сайда, куда в свое время ходила сама, благодаря славе отца — писателя-фантаста. Того самого отца, с которым она росла после развода родителей, и который теперь медленно умирает в больнице. В день своего сорокалетия Элис перебирает текилы и отключается, а просыпается в день своего шестнадцатилетия. Время, когда у нее не хрустели колени и ей не нужен был крем от морщин, но сильнее всего ее поражает отец — молодой, веселый, а главное, здоровый мужчина, каким сорокалетняя она его почти и не помнит.

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying. But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday. Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life. Can she fix her life and save her father? Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most?

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and…

If you could go back, would you do things differently? Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . . Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her…

If you could go back, would you do things differently? Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . . Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and…