Once and Again: a heart-breaking, unforgettable novel of love, family and second chances
Mar 2026 · Hachette UK
Ebook
256
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
infoThis book will become available on March 10, 2026. You will not be charged until it is released.
About this ebook
The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.
Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren's father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won't be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models-and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.
Then one summer, Lauren's husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn't expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren's first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.
As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.
READERS LOVE REBECCA SERLE
'I was hooked from the start' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'So beautiful' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Unexpected but amazing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Beautiful and devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'An emotional rollercoaster' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Moving, thought-provoking and compelling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren's father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won't be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models-and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.
Then one summer, Lauren's husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn't expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren's first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.
As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.
READERS LOVE REBECCA SERLE
'I was hooked from the start' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'So beautiful' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Unexpected but amazing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Beautiful and devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'An emotional rollercoaster' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
'Moving, thought-provoking and compelling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
About the author
Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives between NYC and LA. Serle most recently co-developed the television adaptation of her YA series FAMOUS IN LOVE for Freeform and Warner Brothers Television. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Her bestselling US debut adult novel DINNER LIST was a Book of the Month club pick, Costco bookclub pick, and Bustle Bookclub selection.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
