This is the story of how we grow old -- how we give up the dreams of youth for something better -- and how many chances we have to get it right. 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 42, 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 Home Secretary, monitoring their every move. He makes love to his wife all night long - instead of from midnight until about five past. And suddenly 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.


(ex-library book)

I read this book a couple of weeks ago & now I come to review it can find little to say - while I found it reasonable it at the time (well I finished it!) it can't have been that memorable.

So from what I can recollect in the first half of the book, George would seem to be regressing back to being a teenager after receiving a heart transplant from a donor - yes, you've guessed it - who was a 19-year-old boy. Of course at the time George doesn't know this but when he finds out that seems the end of that & the story from then on just seems to be about a 40-something year-old who has problems with his wife, kids, & parents & is a having a mid-life crisis!

Overall, a passable read but that's about it.

Given to a friend & colleague as a fund raising donation for the Percival Whitley Trust - if you are the person that bought the book, thanks for your contribution to this worthy cause :o)





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