Waking Up in 1973

 

Wide Awake Asleep

What would you do if you woke up in the past, before the worst parts of your life had happened?

Not yesterday. Not last year.

A world of rotary phones, three television channels, milk bottles on doorsteps, paraffin heaters, cigarette smoke in pubs, gossip over garden walls, and women judged by whispers long before anyone asked what had really happened.

That’s where Julie finds herself after a car crash tears her out of the life she’s spent decades building. But she doesn’t return as herself. She wakes in someone else’s body, then another, and another, each one belonging to someone from her past.

People she blamed.

People she lost.

People she never understood.

Julie knows what’s coming. She knows the affairs that will make her mother the talk of the village. She knows her father will leave. She knows she'll be taken into care. She knows the anger that will follow her for the rest of her life.

But this time, she’s not only watching it happen.

She’s seeing it through the eyes of the people who were there.

Wide Awake Asleep is a time-slip novel about family secrets, old betrayals, and the dangerous pull of changing the past.

As Julie confronts old wounds and familiar betrayals, she must decide whether to relive her pain or finally rewrite her history.

Wide Awake Asleep is available now on Amazon.