Review: Totally absorbing feelgood book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2013
Rosary McQuestion's book 'Once upon another time' touches on a number of exciting concepts: everlasting love that crosses over into the afterlife, loss and sorrow, the challenge of balancing career and family life, and the warmth of friendship.  The protagonist is lovable lawyer Aubrey McCory, a scatterbrained mother and widow, who still pines for her dead husband, Matt.  At a dark time in her life, she suddenly begins to see Matt's ghost in different places, and other weird things happen, and she wonders why Matt is trying to contact her. She struggles to find answers, but answers are as elusive as snow on a summer's day.The essence of this book is that all the key characters are likeable, you care what happens to them, and hope against hope that poor bereft Aubrey, who never got over her husband Matt's death, can somehow find happiness.  Despite her friend Laura's attempts at matchmaking, Aubrey never finds anyone who can replace Matt.  What is more she finds her sudden ability to read people thoughts disquieting to say the least (especially when she reads a potential suitor's mind when he thinks her breasts are small!).Lots of thing happen, lots of difficulties lie in Aubrey's path, chiefly her fear that she's losing her mind, and her doubt that her new psychic abilities can be genuine.  But there's also a lot of humour, and the book is interspersed with plenty of zany crazy happenings that keep you smiling.Why is Aubrey's dead husband giving her messages? Why does she keeps seeing his ghost and feel that he's struggling to tell her something?  And how can she ever be happy with a new man, when she knows she will never get over the death of Matt?  Confusion happens when she meets the eminently desirable Gavin and finds him attractive.  But how can she ever succumb to Gavin's charms, when she's still entangled with her beloved dead Matt?Once you start you have to keep reading this enthralling book because you want Aubrey to have a happy ending. I can tell you that there is a very happy ending, but you'll need to share Aubrey's rollercoaster of emotions before you find it.  And you certainly won't be disappointed.