Starting Over

Starting Over
Tony Parsons

This is the story of how we grow old – how we give up the dreams of youth for something better – and how many chances we have to get it right.George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of – the chance to live his life again.After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old – and suddenly everything changes…He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter – and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move.He makes love to his wife all night long - instead of from midnight until about five past. And suddenly he wants to change the world, just as soon as he shakes off his hangover.But George Bailey discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be – and what he actually wants more than anything in the universe is to have his old life back.

Starting Over

Tony Parsons

For Yuriko

Foreword (#ulink_9436dc9d-f2de-5a22-845a-1039439cc3d2)

That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw him. For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge. But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys. Wendy was grown up. You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up.

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u1440eef2-b77d-5c77-80d7-6b56296f467c)

Title Page (#u5e8cf77d-7ca9-58f5-b1e9-fa9461aa7728)

Dedication (#u1162915c-9aca-5483-b534-7932f85eb5ab)

Foreword (#ufbe3648f-63c8-5e57-b9b4-a5d1579543fe)

Part One The Canteen Cowboy V The Careless Boy (#u5f5635ab-9c1b-56d1-acaf-c5cb0098e80c)

The Shape Of A Heart (#u69fc0c41-c50d-5d0a-98b5-c843e898c5d6)

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Part Two Zen And The Art Of Swimming Pool Maintenance (#litres_trial_promo)

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Part Three The Dipping Crew (#litres_trial_promo)

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About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise for Tony Parsons (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Part One The Canteen Cowboy v The Careless Boy (#ulink_cb06a774-8e5a-509b-9069-07c895ce1611)

The Shape of A Heart (#ulink_b89c1594-73e7-504b-a692-b349daf7394b)

She doesn’t feel comfortable driving this car. It is too big, too unfamiliar, too much her husband’s car. And the woman on the sat nav just will not shut up.