What did not work for me (mild spoilers):Įverything here is nearly one-sided. Very fast read, and an intriguing premise that propels the plot and made me really want to know how things were going to turn out. It’s about the gift of knowing what tomorrow will bring if you really walk out that door today. When We Were Young is a rare and beautiful love story that takes place in a single day. Now it would take a miracle to return to yesterday.

Like Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, bizarre and strange events continue throughout the night so that Noah is certain he’s twenty years older, and he is desperate for a second chance. Emily is gone and the kids are years older. He is leaving in the morning.īut when Noah wakes the next day, everything is different. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging posts, their life is anything but a fairytale, and Noah’s obsession with social media has ruined everything.ĭistraught, Emily reaches out to her friend Kari Baxter Taylor and tells her the truth: Noah and Emily have decided to call it quits. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. Theirs is a special kind of love and they want the world to know. Life is not a dress rehearsal.įrom their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. What if you could see into the future and know what will happen tomorrow, if you really walk out that door today. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce.

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