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When Holly Evans wakes adult passed during a proposal age of twenty-two, she’s flattering certain things can’t get any worse (especially given her beloved was about to introduce to her with a solid ring a distance of her knuckle). But Holly’s wrong and it turns out that she’s still got some mortal container to unpack before she can travel by a pearly gates, that is because she’s being sent behind to earth to get things sorted out.
Problem is that when she lands in a physique of mechanism geek, Vince Murphy, she discovers that instead of carrying left a building, Vince is still really most alive (and remarkably unimpressed during a thought of pity with a passed girl). So now Holly has to arrange out her unused container in a subsequent forty-eight hours while stranded in a physique of a man she hardly beheld while she was alive. And if she doesn’t? Well, let’s only contend that she’s substantially not going to like a alternative.
"It's The Lovely Bones meets Bridget Jones in this feathery take on what happens after death...it's a fun, smart traipse by a afterlife." Publisher's Weekly
"This book has a delightfully quirky judgment that develops into a fun and engaging story. Peopled with a fascinating accumulation of characters, it also has an intriguing poser and a charmingly opposite form of communication between a favourite and heroine. Expect a pleasant story with a splendidly particular ending." 4 1/2 stars Romantic Times Bookclub TOP AUGUST PICK 2007
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #257417 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-06-12
- Released on: 2011-06-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
It's The Lovely Bones meets Bridget Jones in this feathery take on what happens after death. Holly Evans, an ethereal 22-year-old recently defunct by ostensible suicide, lingers in Heaven's "Level One, carrying to put adult with all of a horrible rejects while people like her relatives were adult on Level Three substantially wearing poetic white togas and showering in chocolate." Luckily, her torture "spiritual realigner" (think: shrink) sends her behind to Earth for dual days to inform her soul, transparent adult a resources surrounded her purported self-murder and confess to her beloved Todd that she wants to marry him. The catch? Her vessel is Vince Murphy, a man from a IT department. As a time ticks, Vince and Holly psychically discuss in Vince's conduct while ticking off a equipment on Holly's to-do list. The organic end isn't unexpected, though it's not utterly approaching either. It's a fun, smart traipse by a afterlife.
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About a Author
Amanda Ashby was innate in Australia, though has spent a final 10 years dividing her time between England and New Zealand. This is her initial book.
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Stephanie M. Hale
Debut author Amanda Ashby had me bending from a initial line. Ashby takes us on a humorous, heart-tugging, heaven-to earth-ride with Holly Evans. Holly always wanted to know group improved though hitching a float in her co-worker Vincent Murphy's physique isn't accurately what she had in mind. While operative out her earth-bound issues, Holly realizes we can't always distance someone adult by a kind of tie they wear.
I laughed out shrill several times while reading this and cheered for Holly when she finally came to her senses and satisfied her life unequivocally started when she died.
4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Harriet Klausner
Holly Evans is unfortunate to be passed during twenty-two years aged and ashamed carrying attended her possess funeral. Her celestial cringe grants her a forty-eight hour postpone with dual stipulations. First she contingency make a celestial bid to transparent adult a tiffs she had with friends and family, etc; second she contingency use someone else's physique whose essence has usually vacated a premises.
Holly enters a remains of recently defunct mechanism nerd Vince Murphy; usually there is a teenager problem. Vince still lives so she shares his body, that irritates him no end. However he agrees to assistance her with her cause. Meanwhile Holly realizes that a biggest mistake of her life when she was vital was not realizing how good nonetheless clever Vince is.
This pleasant after life anticipation is interesting and comical as Holly and Vince will remind readers of a superb 1980s Tomlin-Martin film All of Me. Readers will giggle out shrill as a geek and a passed stylish chicky conflict for control of his physique and their attribute even as an peculiar captivate forms. Amanda Ashley provides a desirable offbeat tale.
Harriet Klausner
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By Teresa L. Judd
I unequivocally favourite this book. It is well-written and a artistic idea. Yes, it is a customary intrigue though finished in an strange way. It was a fun review and kept my seductiveness to a end.
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