IT WAS ALWAYS YOU by Emma Cooper, Helen Keeley - audiobook extract

Published: April 29, 2022, 3:48 p.m.

Would you choose a different life if you had the chance?\n\nTwo people. One chance to turn back the clock.\n\nThe unforgettable new novel from the author of The Songs of Us. If you love Cecilia Ahern and Holly Miller, you'll adore this heartwarming novel.\n\nOn the last night in October 1999, the clocks went back, and Ella and Will's love began.\n\nA teenage Ella sat around a bonfire drinking with her future husband and her oldest friend, Cole. As Ella wandered away from the group, she found herself leaning against a derelict archway before passing out. The next day, Ella remembered fractured images of a conversation with a woman in a green coat and red scarf but dismissed it as a drunken dream.\n\nTwenty-three years later, with her marriage to Will in trouble, and Cole spiralling out of control, Ella opens a gift which turns her life upside down: a green coat and red scarf. When she looks in the mirror, the woman from the archway is reflected back at her.\n\nAs the last Sunday in October arrives, Ella is faced with a choice.\n\nWould she choose a different life, if she could do it again?