Five First Chances

Sarah Jost draws on her personal battle with anxiety and her experience of moving to a different country to create her protagonist's distinctive and uncertain reality in Five First Chances, a stunning debut full of heartache and raw emotion. Louise is on a journey to find meaning in a whirlwind of mistakes and what-ifs until she has the chance to try again.

Lou's life is at a standstill: she is unhappy at work, hung up on her ex, Romain, and uncertain if she should continue trying to create a life for herself in England or go back to Switzerland. She also juggles a stagnant career and her mother's depression following her grandmother's death. Just when nothing seems to be going her way, a door opens, and she can go back to when she first met Nick Harper at a friend's birthday party, a moment when her world unknowingly changed forever. She then finds herself spending her days between two worlds.

This imaginative and inspirational story, featuring time travel and the opportunity for second chances, explores the struggles of anxiety and depression--and the light at the end of the tunnel. Lou and Nick traverse five timelines, take five chances at love, and engage in endless life-altering decisions until they find their way to their "perfect" love story. Jost delivers a romance with characters who are overwhelmed with loss and who navigate mistakes and regrets, but in this love story she gives them the power to overcome them. --Clara Newton, freelance reviewer

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