What do you do when your perfectly laid out life is unraveling before your eyes? And what if you are given visions of the unraveling before it even starts? This is the dilemma that faces 32-year-old Tilly Farmer in New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch’s charming third novel, THE ONE THAT I WANT.
Tilly Farmer has been given the gift of clarity. Her once perfect life as a high school guidance counselor married to her high school sweetheart is coming apart at the seams. The problems arise when Tilly is given tiny glimpses of these tears before they happen. Her picture-perfect life is tipped on its axis and suddenly the long buried and ignored flaws are starting to show. Her marriage starts crumbling, her issues with her father resurface and her once adequate life suddenly starts to lose its luster. Everything Tilly everbelieved in is being challenged and even her glimpses at the future create more questions than answers. Throughout this heartfelt, honest and poignant journey into the soul of one woman we learn that, “everyone needs to come unraveled every once in awhile, even the people who seemingly have it totally held together.”
Allison Winn Scotch has written a story of hope and survival in everyday life, an empowering novel with a likable and believable protagonist and a thoughtful journey. What Scotch does impeccably well is give her readers a great concept (what if you could see the future?) and expand on it with believable, authentic characters and graceful prose. Her books are always a treat and this one is bound to delight readers. You will finish this book feeling inspired and optimistic. A great read!
