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The Year of What If

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The Year of What If

By: Phaedra Patrick
Narrated by: Claire Calverley
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Bloomsbury presents The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick, read by Claire Calverley.

Can the future be rewritten?

On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she’s finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she’s confident that, together, they will dispel an old family curse claiming Carter women are unlucky in love.

But Carla’s highly superstitious family insists she visit a fortune teller before her big day, and the tarot cards reveal that a different man holds the key to Carla’s happiness – someone she met while travelling during a gap year, twenty-one years ago. This startling information spurs Carla to trace and revisit the ex-boyfriends she met during that time before she walks down the aisle.

From Barcelona to Amsterdam, Turkey to Paris, will Carla find her perfect match? And can a face from her past help Carla rewrite her entire family history, forever?

©2025 Phaedra Patrick (P)2025 HarperCollins
Contemporary

Critic reviews

'Anyone with a meddling family and too many exes will feel right at home in The Year of What If, an escapist romp that offers it all: a European vacation, an unsolved mystery, and a whole lot of love' -- Christina Lauren

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Very original, not a predictable storyline or ending...twists and turns kept you going right until the end. Very enjoyable

very original

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The narrator was great! I've never heard a narrator speak so many different accents a d characters that well.

The story of psychics and superstitions I found refreshing and different although some of the superstitions got mixed up with truth.

This listen did not make me laugh and I thought it was a Chicklit romcom.
I did want to keep listening to the book as I was intrigued to know what was going to happen, so it had a good hook.

Listening to Carla Carter travel around Europe meeting people of her past because of a tarot card reading was a good story but I felt let down at the end, I thought it would have had a better ending or an epilogue. I just wanted more.

I bought this on a 2 for 1 credit but I would not have spent a whole credit on this book although saying that I still do recommend this listen 🌠

DIFFERENT STORY 3 STARS 🌟🌟🌟

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This is a un- and usual story, a love story with arded extra problemas for the main charcter. On the plus si des she tajes the reader son a trip all through europe, and all ends well

Different and yet not

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