I love most of this book. Kate has recently lost her husband and is grieving. She wishes she could warn her husband about his illness and mysteriously time travels back. I loved these parts and even when she travels back to the future... but the epilogue what was that?!?

I'm was pretty bored listening to this audiobook. It was an interesting concept to be able to go back in time and see your love again after they have passed away though. Thank you Netgalley and Hachette Audio for my gifted copy.

Come Again // by Robert Webb // narrated by Olivia Coleman

In Come Again by Robert Webb, the main character, a somewhat recent widow, tries to do one more good thing for the world before she ends her life because she believes that going on just would not be worth it without her beloved husband. When she wakes up in her 18-year-old body though, reliving Day 0 of the 10,000 she's known him, she thinks she has a second chance to do better this time around. Everyone deserves a second chance after all.

Come Again is a good mixture of romance and unexpected action, and the different components that make up this story quickly draw you in and keep you hooked. The author easily describes the feelings of the main character in a way that makes them relatable or at the least understandable, and he keeps the story moving at a good pace. This book was narrated by Olivia Coleman, who was an excellent choice. Her voice, speed, and emotions greatly added to the story and I hope I can listen to her again soon.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

A very sweet story. If you're looking for a story with all the feels and a wonderful narrator pick up this gem of a book. I find it really soothing having someone else tell me a story. Happy listening!

This is the first book that I have read/listened to by Robert Webb. Olivia Colman was the narrator. I enjoyed her narration.

This was a story about Kate Marsden that lost her husband Luke to a brain tumor. Kate goes back to the past to see what she can change.

In the beginning of the book I seemed to get confused back and forth with what was going on. It would grab my attention and then lose my attention. There was excitement here and there. A laugh here and there. A ping of my heart and joy with the story.

The story was not what I expected and ended differently than I would have predicted. I am glad I tried something different.

I was very excited that Netgally added a audiobook version and this was the first book I chose to listen to. Come again started out rather slowly but Kates story was very interesting in the end and ultimately I’m glad I stuck with this book.

Kate is understandably depressed after the death of her husband, but she is a strong woman who finds her way through depression and learns to love again in the end.

This audiobook was pretty wonderful, the combination of Robert Webb's superb comic writing, and Olivia Colman's impeccable narration. After all, how can you go wrong with an Oscar-winning actress?

I've been a big fan of Robert Webb for a while; he is a British actor, comedian, and he recently published a beautiful memoir, How Not to be a Boy. His work with Colman goes back years, as they were both actors together on shows such as Peep Show, and That Mitchell and Webb Show/Sound. Colman's obvious admiration for Webb's work comes through in this audiobook, and she lovingly tells this wonderful story of heartbreak, loss, time-travel, and hacking.

Recently widowed Kate Marsden is in a bad way. Her husband Luke has suddenly died from cancer, and Kate is beating herself up for not noticing it sooner. On the night she intends to commit suicide, she seemingly travels back to her college days, and attempts to change history by prematurely saving Luke's life. As she assesses her old/new college friends from the perspective of an older woman in a young woman's body, she reassess her opinions of them, and relationships alter.

Present-day Kate has other issues to contend with, such as her high-risk hacking job for an awful boss, and said boss's relationships with incredibly dodgy characters.

Come Again contains two major sections. The first being Kate's present day life, dealing with her grief, career, parents, and everything else. The second is her time-traveling exploits to her college days. The latter is a lot more enjoyable than the former, and I can't help but wish Webb had spent more time on this than the former. Although the novel is enjoyable as a whole, and the aforementioned sections definitely link together, there was a chase section of the novel that went on a tad too long for my liking.

Nevertheless, it is always a pleasure to listen to the gorgeous voice of Olivia Colman. She creates superb characters with her voice, and she always exudes a sense of warmth, even in Webb's most heartless creations. And she delivers the more explicit lines like a trooper. Her sense of comic timing has been honed through many years of performing comedic roles.

For a debut novel, this is very impressive. There are clear Nick Hornby influences, but this work is truly Webb's own. Come Again is a very funny novel about grief, heartache, friendship, and that it is never too late to "Come again".

Come Again by Robert Webb is the first audiobook that I've been able to listen to through NetGalley and I'm thrilled to have the option to listen to audiobooks, especially when they are read by someone as illustrious as Olivia Coleman!

Kate is mourning her husband Luke and doing a poor job of it when she falls into a drunken slumber and wakes up in her dorm room on the day she first met him. Knowing that she can change the course of his life by telling him that he has a brain tumor that will eventually kill him, can she bring herself to change the trajectory of their lives by telling him? If she does, what will happen to her life in the future, where she is a widow? An unusual novel that begs the question...can you fall in love for the first time twice?

Thank you to the author, Hachette Audio and NetGalley for the audiobook of this novel. I love being able to listen to a novel during my commute!

“Just as a doctor records the time of death, Kate had recorded love at first sight. 7:44 pm.”

This book has a trope that I will read again and again and again - time travel love story. We follow Kate who is recently a widow after her husband Luke dies unexpectedly of a brain tumor. After exploring her “today” which is rather sad as she is on the brink of suicide due to her heavy grief. She falls asleep and wakes up in her 18-year old body on her first night that she moved into college… which is also the night that she and Luke first met. She now has to decide if she can fall in love twice with the same man.

This book explores the concept of destiny, happiness, and being present in the moment. I liked the avenue the book took to explain time travel and ended up giving this unique romance ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

I think about this idea a lot. I had an interesting journey in marrying my husband after dating young… and then years of friendship… following by “the real deal.” I sometimes wonder how differently things would have played out if I had made different choices, but since I am happy with where I am at today it’s more of just a fun thought experiment than anything else!
QOTD: Do you ever think about how you could have made different decisions to impact your life today?


Thank you so much to Netgalley and Hachette Audio for this ALC. It was my first Netgalley audio and I really loved it.

OH MY GOD, THIS BOOK. I loved it so so so much. I don't think my review will do it justice. Where do I begin?!
I had the audiobook version of think thanks to Netgalley. I listened to the entire thing in a day and a half. I was absolutely hooked from the start. And the fact that Olivia Colman does the reading, oooh it's so good.
I loved how Webb described each character, I genuinely felt like I got to know them and became rather invested. It's quite an emotional book and I was gripped through the entire thing. Very witty and I chuckled a lot through the book. Honestly, this book is just heartwarming. You get so invested in the characters, and I just want more. It ended really nicely, I won;t go into details as it will spoil it! But despite it finishing in such a nice way, where I didn't feel like it was a cliffhanger or anything like some books, I still wanted more. I really hope this gets made into a movie or show.
Eeverybody needs to go and read this book ASAP!

Come Again by Robert Webb is a tale of second chances with a dash of magical realism and 90s nostalgia. It's likely to strike a cord with fans of books like Oona Out of Order and Again, But Better.

A story told in three parts, Kate is dealing with waves of grief, as her husband of 28 years Luke dies. When she wakes up one morning back in her 18-year-old body, she knows she has a chance to save him. While the high-level premise of this book trends on the familiar, Webb interlaces the book with some unique hijinks that I won't spoil that make this book completely unique. Let's just say that it wouldn't be preposterous for MI6 to make an appearance, and this isn't your typical rom-com; it's got an edge.

And, since I am a total Anglophile, the audiobook listening experience made the book all the better for me. It's brilliantly narrated by Olivia Coleman and has a run time of 7:47.

Many thanks to the author, Hachette Audio, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts are my own. #ComeAgainAudio #NetGalley

This is my review posted on Goodreads:

I was able to listen to this ARC thanks to NetGalley and their new audio book program.

Come Again is a good book on the whole. It is in three somewhat disjointed parts. As an American i think some of the terms in the first part may throw off non-British readers a little until they get into the story a little but not enough to stop reading. There are some brief mild sexual comments in the first part as well as profanity (mostly f-bombs) so beware if you are sensitive to those.

For me the first part, talking about Kate losing her husband unexpectedly, and the grief that she went through, was relatable to me as a widow. That first part seemed to drag for me with the whole work story line and the secret file and the men out to get her for the file.

I did like the second part where Kate is still her older age mentally in her 18 year old body. I sometimes wonder what I would do and say if I was 18 again and knew then what I know now. Kate tries hard not to change the timeline so as to not affect the future, all except telling Luke about his health issue. It was interesting seeing how she remembers each of her uni mates when she first met them (again) and knowing how they turned out later in life. She remembers everything that happened when she met Luke and wants it all to happen the same way again.

The third section was a bit disjointed for me. It's like Kate all of a sudden wakes up in this action adventure spy movie with her faithful Scottish friend, who has become a spy, there to help her escape the Russian thugs who were chasing her in the first part and live happily ever after.

The author is a good writer. I just felt like the story lines were disjointed and didn't flow well for me. I think the narrator did an excellent job with varied emotions and inflections. She kept me going, especially through the first part where I felt like I was dragging.

Thank you again to #netgalley #hachetteaudio for giving me access to this title to listen to ahead of publication.

This wasn't really all that bad, it was honestly completely average in basically every way I think of. Kate is in an incredibly difficult time of her life, having recently lost her husband Luke. Even in her depression, I could see Kate's personality and humor spark through every now and again. And the story really builds on itself, she doesn't 'go back in time until around the 40% mark, so we can really see her grow through the story.

But the book was seriously negatively effected by my reading experience. The new Netgalley shelf app must still have some kinks because every few minutes the book would stop playing. It would sometimes start again on its own, but sometimes I would have to pause/play it. Which is its own problem because sometimes pausing while in the middle of a chapter would dump me back at the start.

I'm trying to not let my experience change my rating much, and honestly this would probably be in the 2-3 star range for me. I'm not really sure why, but I get similar vibes to The Flatshare which was similarly ranked.

Overall an okay book that will probably be forgettable, but it's usually fun while it lasts .

I received a copy of the book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

My, oh my, what a magical, emotional tale. "Come Again" is a beautiful audio/book about love and loss which uses my favorite concept of time travel.

I feel so much love for this book, but I'm having a bit of a hard time processing my thoughts and emotions. I think this is because the author truly hit the jackpot with the issues he deals with: love, grief for a loved one, as well as sacrificing part of oneself for a relationship and the other person. In the time of the pandemic, and as a young woman preparing for engagement, I have been thinking about these issues a lot lately. Frankly, I generally fear reaching for any books dealing with grief, but after reading the blurb I sensed that I would relate to the protagonist, Kate - and heck, was I right.

I would highly recommend this book (with an amazing narrator in the audio) if you need an emotional read with a healthy dose of magic.

*Thank you to the Publisher for a free advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this audio book in exchange for an honest review
What a great story about Kate who lost Luke the love of hEr life a year earlier. In her grief she had pushed everyone in her life away, blamed herself for Luke’s death and was determined to end her life until she woke up pre Luke, back in college and 18 again.
This beautiful story made me laugh and cry as I listened to Kate relive her life in college and struggle to reconcile her 18 year old self to her 45 year old self. There were a few surprises that I still don’t know how I feel about but I still thought this was a great story and enjoyed listening to it

After the death of Kate's husband, Luke, she is devastated. They fell in love the moment they saw each other 28 years ago. Grieving, Kate is ready to give up, but then she wakes up in her old body on the night she first met the love of her life. Kate sets off on a quest to save Luke from the choices he made earlier in his life and prevent his early death.

This was extremely average for me... I didn't care much for Kate or the other characters or what happened to them. The romance seemed forced, I didn't feel a connection between Kate and Luke at all, they honestly seemed to despise each other. The idea of the time-traveling was cool, but then by Part 3 of the book you're thrown into this grand adventure that made no sense with the rest of the story. It was a very easy read though and flew by rather quickly, but it was nothing memorable in my opinion.

This is a review of the audiobook for Come Again by Robert Webb, narrated by Olivia Coleman.

Come Again is the story of Kate, who has lost her husband to cancer and is reeling from mind-numbing grief. Kate's grief is well written here, and well portrayed by Olivia Coleman. There is an honesty that comes out of raw grief, when you say what's on your mind because you know that nothing but truth really matters anyway. This is captured perfectly in the book.

The second part of the book shows Kate, who has attempted suicide, traveling back in time to her 18 year old self. As a time travel fiction buff, I was little disappointed that the means of time travel was not really shown or discussed. Kate meets her husband all over again. This is a fascinating study of the age old question, "if you could go back again, knowing what you know now, what would you do?"

The third part of the book is a sort of spy/thriller, but it does not come out of nowhere as it was set up in part one.

I enjoyed this book very much and Olivia Coleman did a great job of portraying the emotions throughout: Heart stopping grief in part one, shock, wonder, and confusion in part two, and then danger and terror in part three.

The epilogue was a little confusing and, again, broke some rules of time travel fiction and left some things unexplained.

Overall, this is a well written book. The grief of losing a spouse is especially well portrayed. This is a very British book, so I was surprised and a little annoyed at the American political commentary thrown in for no apparent reason . Olivia Coleman does a fantastic job with the narration and gets 5 stars.

Overall: 4 stars.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from Netgalley. My review is voluntary.

Come Again is the first novel by award-winning British actor, comedian and author, Robert Webb. The audio version is brilliantly narrated by actor, Olicia Colman. Nine months widowed, and all Kate Marsden wants to do is drink herself daily into oblivion, where at least she can dream of Luke. If the dream of their first encounter is never quite right, her memories always are.

Since Luke was suddenly taken by a sneaky, slow-growing tumour he’d had since before they met, Kate has withdrawn, merely existed, worked her IT job on auto-pilot. But when her mourning fog momentarily lifts, she uncovers an explosive piece of information: something with far-reaching effects for the world. Trouble is, deciding what to do when you are grief-stricken, suicidal and half-drunk is an undertaking she’s not sure she can face.

On reaching the milestone of ten thousand days since they first met, Kate decides the appropriate step is to stop living; just one more Luke dream, and then she’ll take the pills and the vodka. But when Kate wakes, it’s in her single bed in Benedict College, in her eighteen-year-old body, on the day she first met Luke Fairbright, back in October 1992. It’s not a dream.

Her immediate instinct is to save Luke: “it was perfectly straightforward. She was going to convince Luke that she was from the future and he needed to get a tumour removed from his brain otherwise he would drop dead at the age of forty-seven in his kitchen, which was incidentally also her kitchen because she was his wife. Fine.”

And if that’s not challenge enough, another tiny problem becomes apparent: her forty-five-year-old brain is more irritated than charmed by nineteen-year-old Luke, his lies, affectations and his pretentious manuscript. For his part, Luke is both sceptical and angry about the bizarre and rather disturbing revelations this (clearly crazy) total stranger dumps on him.

What an absolute treat Webb’s first novel is! He gives the reader a clever plot, marvellous characters, witty dialogue and an action-packed finale that features Russian thugs, a car chase involving a fleet of London cabbies, an avant-garde Shakespeare production, MI5 and quite a lot of karate. It is filled with generous helpings of brilliant British humour, much of it quite black, especially the insults, though some readers may object to the expletives.

Webb’s descriptive prose is wonderfully evocative: “The main body of the bar was the setting of a vast, ongoing brawl between broken tiles, strip-lighting and chipped Formica. The walls were brown, but with that hint of yellow that gives horse manure its element of drama. Around the edges were a series of semi-circular ‘booths’ featuring red plastic banquettes and tiny, quivering tables guaranteed to immediately spill any drink they came into contact with. The metal chair legs had all lost their rubber stoppers years ago and the effect of a hundred of them scraping against the ‘terracotta’ floor was – until you learned to tune it out – what insanity might sound like if it lived with a dentist. It was a room that couldn’t hear itself think and which understood no smells but tobacco and last night’s beer. Kate felt immediately at home.”
This is an outstanding debut novel and whatever Webb puts his hand to next will be eagerly anticipated.
This unbiased review is from an audio copy provided by NetGalley and Hachette Audio

This book was emotional, funny, and unique. A new take on romance that asks- can you fall in love for the first time twice? The author did a great job expressing the emotional state of the main character without making me feel overwhelmed. There was a lot to be liked about this book.

I think my main issue with this book is it felt like a mix of three different stories that overlapped but never really meshed. I liked the beginning and was excited to see where it would go. The second part was amazing and I loved seeing how the character handled being thrown into her past. However, the third part was a little over dramatic and was hard to believe.

AUDIO: The narrator was fantastic. She did a great job with the emotional and funny scenes.

The epilogue was... confusing. The author tried to get readers to suspend disbelief but it was honestly not successful. I kind of wish that would have been completely left out because it made zero sense and was not necessary for the story. Also the music in the last minute of the epilogue was incredibly annoying and too loud.

No, wasn’t my cup of tea. I didn’t really relate to any of the characters. I struggled a lot to get into it. The Audio narrator Incredible though.