After reading LIFE AS I KNOW IT, you will never go out in a
lightening storm without thinking twice.
Independent, career woman Jessica Taylor is hit by
lightening. Thankfully she suffers only minor injuries-- to
her body, but what about her soul? Because it now
appears (to her, if not most others) that she inhabits not
one but two bodies, the other being the person of Lauren
Richardson, a wife and mother of four children (including
one with special needs). Jessica never imagined herself in
this position, even in her real life, and doesn't know how
to undo it, that is, if she wants to.
Melanie Rose has written a charming story about stepping
into someone else's shoes. Jessica steps into the
fashionable footwear and life of a mother who, in many ways
is all that she isn't or imagined that she'd ever want to
be, only to discover that there are pluses and minuses to
every life. An amazing writer, Ms. Rose aptly juggles the
perspectives of two very different women. I became
impatient as I read, curious as to how it would all end and
sure that at least one of these women would have an unhappy
ending, but Ms. Rose developed the perfect ending for a very
original tale.
Jessica Taylor wakes up in a hospital room only to find that
everyone around her thinks she is somebody else. Not only
that, she seems to have a husband and four children she
doesn't remember anything about. What she does remember is
her quiet single life with her dog Frankie, going to work at
her comfortable job, and meeting the man of her dreams in
the park just before she was hit by lightning.
Soon she discovers that when she goes to sleep she
alternates between her two lives, that of Jessica and that
of Lauren Richardson. Jessica has no idea what's happened to
her or whether she can get back to life s she knows it.
Meanwhile, she has her hands full being a mother to Laurens'
four heartbroken children and a wife to her demanding
husband. But as she digs deeper int Lauren's life, Jessica
unearths some secrets, secrets which may tea the family apart.
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