Witty, touching, and insightful, Playback revisits the 17yearold Mari Caldwell of Shine Until Tomorrow, now 34, to tell the story of a woman obsessed with the past who must risk the future to learn to live in the present"Once upon a time there was a summer."Thats the way the bedtime story starts, the one Mari Caldwell tells her little girl. Its also her secret story of waking up one day in San Francisco, 1967, having timetraveled to the tiedyed Summer of Love.But she was seventeen then. Now, at 34, where Mari once saw 60s idealism, she now sees only disillusionment. Newly divorced and stuck in a settledfor career, Maris failed at giving her child the perfect family shed envisioned. That weird weekend in the sixties the rock band she crashed with, the musician she loved, the hit song he wrote for her lives in the wayback of her mind. Did it even happen? Shes not so sure Until it happens again.Playback rewinds Maris life as she makes a second visit to HaightAshbury in 1967, now autumn. The band, Maris rival, and her first love all see the 17yearold girl they met in June. But inside, adult Mari faces both tender and devastating choices. What if, regardless of how the times have achanged, love changes everything after all? What if it even changes her?

Binding: Hardback;218 pages; Publisher: Rare Bird Books; Classification: FRH; Weight: 530 g; Dimensions: 225 x 150 x 21

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