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The One That I Want - Allison Winn Scotch
The One That I Want
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Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of: married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown, trying for a baby. Perfect.  In fact, on the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly... show more
Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of: married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown, trying for a baby. Perfect.  In fact, on the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, her father drowned his grief in alcohol, and she played parent to her two younger sisters more often than being a kid herself. Still Tilly never let tragedy overtake her belief that hard work and good cheer could solve any problem. Of course she’s also spent a lifetime plastering a smile on her face and putting everyone else’s problems ahead of her own. But that relentless happiness has served her well—her sisters are grown and content, her dad is ten years sober, and she’s helping her students achieve all their dreams while she and her husband, Tyler, start a family. A perfect life indeed.Then one sweltering afternoon at the local fair, everything changes. Tilly wanders into the fortune teller’s tent and is greeted by an old childhood friend, now a psychic, who offers her more than just a reading. “I’m giving you the gift of clarity,” her friend says. “It’s what I always thought you needed.” And soon enough, Tilly starts seeing things: her father relapsing, staggering out of a bar with his car keys in hand; Tyler uprooting their happy, stable life, a packed U-Haul in their driveway; and even more disturbing, these visions start coming true. Suddenly Tilly’s perfect life, so meticulously mapped out, seems to be crumbling around her. And she’s not sure what’s more frightening: that she’s begun to see the future or what the future holds . . .  As Tilly furiously races to keep up with—and hopefully change—her destiny, she faces the question: Which is the life she wants? The one she’s carefully nursed for decades, or the one she never considered possible?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780307464507 (0307464504)
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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The Reading Perusals of Rose Summers
The Reading Perusals of Rose Summers rated it
3.0 The One That I Want: A Novel
Allison Winn Scotch's "The One That I Want" does pull it's title from the Grease song of the same name, and I have to say that this was an enjoyable read, full of as true to heart moments as it was a unique way of presenting a supernatural ability to give clarity in a character's life where she need...
cat's corner
cat's corner rated it
Solid plot, great characters and Ms. Winn Scotch's trademark lyrical prose - just didn't fall in love like I did with her two previous novels.
Read, Run, Ramble
Read, Run, Ramble rated it
5.0 The One That I Want
Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. Tilly Farmer, the main character, fights with herself and those around her as her self-made; self-maintained world starts to crumble after a chance meeting with an old friend. She represents what is in all of us - lost dreams, lost...
TheBecks
TheBecks rated it
I won this ARC from Crown Publishing's "Read It Forward" program. I requested it thinking that it would be something of a late-bloomer's coming of age story, which I love because as much as I love teen coming of age stories, it seems to me that the ones with adults finding themselves pack a little b...
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Another good one by Allison Winn Scotch. Really enjoyed it!
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