This is the 5th novel by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. Ahern is one of my favourite authors, however that being said conpared to some of her other novels, especially Ps I love you, I feel this one falls a little short.

The book is split between the points of view of the two main characters, Joyce Conway and Justin Hitchcock. It is also split into parts, which are, one month earlier, present day and one month in the future.

Joyce suffers an accident at the beginning of the book which results in her losing her unborn child. While in hospital Joyce receives a blood transfusion. After leaving hospital she moves in with her father due to the breakdown of her marriage.

Justin is a lecturer who travels from London to Dublin to give a lecture. While in Dublin he donates blood to impress an attractive doctor. He is divorced , lonely and restless.

Joyce begins to have a sense of deja vu, she eats meat when she is veggie, knows facts she never knew before and starts to dream of a young girl she has never even met. We later discover the little girl is connected to Justin. Joyce begins to realise her memories are not her own but are those of someone else. Justin also starts to feel a connection but is unsure as to why. There are many chance meetings and passes by but it takes a while for Joyce and Justin to meet. The book follows both characters' journey into what is happening between them, however it gets a little frustrating as we as the reader seem to know a lot more than they do alot of the time.

I'm not sure how much I liked the book over all, there were parts I loved and times I also shouted at the book. Compared to other novels by Ahern it feel a little short for me. Thats not to say its not a great piece of writting because it is, just not up to her usual standred. All that being said I was still hooked to the book from the get go. In the prologue before we have met any of the characters, it is hinted that a woman is losing her child. As a mother myself it was heartbreaking to read and drew me in. I was dying to know how things turned out.

I enjoyed watching Joyce's character build herself back up again and get her life back on track. This involved a lot of wonderful moments between Joyce and her father. It was this relationship and the character of Joyce's father that really held my intrest in the book throughout. I found the main plot/ relationship between Justin and Joyce a little boring. There was a lot of chasing around and waiting. I much prefered all the little sub relationships within the book i.e Joyce and her friends.

The book is also filled with lots of facts i.e art facts and language phrases. Some may enjoy this but I felt there were too many and made the book almost too heavy, and took away from the main story. However this did show just how much research the author had done.