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Once in Every Life : A Novel by Hannah, Kristin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Once in Every Life : A Novel about?

<p><P>Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit &#151; a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon.<br>But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three &#151; and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Tess Gregory is a successful research scientist with a poignant past when her deafness keeps her from hearing and avoiding an oncoming bus. Because her life has been so unsatisfactory and truncated, she is given a chance at a new one. A guardian angel escorts Tess to the ``theater of second chances,'' where her options consist of choosing among several different men to accompany in her next go-round. What she fails to understand is that the appealing man and newborn baby on whom she settles are living in the year 1873. On the positive side, Tess has been reincarnated in the body of a drop-dead gorgeous new moth

Who reads Once in Every Life : A Novel?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Hannah, Kristin
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9780449148389
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
History, Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.85 / 5 (1,663 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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