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George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of -the chance to live his life again. After suffering a heart attack at the age of 47, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old - and suddenly everything changes...
He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter - and not a stern old-school dad, monitoring their every move. He is a lover to his wife, and not just a husband. And he wants to change the world, just as soon as he shakes off his hangover.
But George Bailey discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be - and what he actually wants more than anything in the universe is to have his old life back.
'He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored'
GUARDIAN
'His stories show all too well how we muddle along in search of love and fulfilment, and when we fluff it... sometimes that's just because it's easier'
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Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy, winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels - One for My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife - were all bestsellers. He lives in London.
Praise for Tony Parsons
'A touching novel . . . full of quiet tenderness and written from the heart'
Independent
'Memorable and poignant - nobody squeezes more genuine emotion from a scene than Tony Parsons'
Spectator
'His stories show all too well how we muddle along in search of love and fulfilment, and when we fluff it. . . sometimes that's just because it's easier' Observer
'Parsons poses some interesting questions about love and life in the modern world, proving once again that he's a writer with his finger firmly on the pulse'
Glamour
'Bursting at the seams with romantic dilemmas, sex and second wives, this is another triumph for Parsons'
Heat
'Tony Parsons is the master of the bittersweet love story'
Red
'Because he so successfully links personal with public, and people with place in a way he hasn't quite done before, Parsons has created a much bigger and more compelling book ... a major achievement'
Mirror
'His evocation of modern China - "a medieval country with broadband" - is vivid and unsparing'
The Times
