Book Rec: A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
“Like many others, we craved spaces where starry skies would glisten like jewels and bow down to meet the hayfields silhouetted against the setting sun.”
What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?
Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened.
Annie’s marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she’s no longer home in their beloved upstate farmhouse. Her long-estranged sister is more like a best friend, and her recently deceased dog is alive and well. With each passing day, Annie’s remembered past and unfamiliar present begin to blur. Haunted by visions of Hannah, and with knowledge of things she can’t explain, Annie wonders…is everyone lying to her?
The search for answers leads Annie down an illuminating path far from home, to reconcile the memories with reality and to discover the truth about the life she’s living.
My Thoughts
A Day Like This is a beautiful story about the different paths we could potentially take in life. It takes a lot to make me cry, but I found myself tearing up a few different times. It made me think - what would happen if I woke up and my children never existed? How could I possibly live without them?
This book made me exam my life, my family, and all the times I have taken it for granted. I was also intrigued by the possibility of time travel - it’s a very interesting subject that I would love to learn more about.
Not only is the subject matter interesting and engaging, but the writing is beautiful. McNeil drew me in with her prose, and many times I forgot that I was reading, which is just what I needed to get out of the reading slump I’ve been in.
Overall, I highly recommend reading this book - I doubt you will be disappointed.
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Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, I hope you are having a beautiful day.💜