Cesca Major 
Maybe Next Time 
A Novel

One Daymeets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual.Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter wont go near her.Even the dog seems sad.She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with emergencies; keeping track of a dozen Whats App groups about the kids sports, school, playdates, all of it.Her whole day is franticwhat else is newand as she rushes back through the door for dinner, Dan isstillupset.They fight, and he walks out, desolate, dragging their poor dog around the block. Just as she realizes it is their anniversary and she has forgotten, again, she hears the screech of brakes.Dan is dead.The next day Emma wakes up and Dan is alive. And its Monday again.And again.And again.Emma tries desperately to change the course of fate by doing different things each time she wakes up: leaving Whats App, telling her boss where to get off, writing to Dan, listening to her kids, reaching out to forgotten friends, getting drunk and buying out Prada.But will Emma have the chance to find herself again, remember what she likes about her job, reconnect with her children, love her husband?Will this be enough to change the fate they seem destined for?A moving What if story of what it is to be a woman in the modern worldnever feeling were getting it quite rightabout learning to slow down and appreciate life that is sure to resonate with womens fiction readers.