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Rea Frey — THE OTHER YEAR — with Vanessa Lillie for a Book Signing on Sep 30 from 1 to 3 PM

  • Ink Fish Books 488 Main Street Warren, RI, 02885 United States (map)

Rea Frey — THE OTHER YEAR — with Vanessa Lillie for a Book Signing on Sep 30 from 1 to 3 PM

Award-winning author Rea Frey will sign copies of her women’s fiction novel The Other Year as part of a national book tour, and is joined by local best-selling author Vanessa Lillie (Little Voices, For the Best, Blood Sisters).

Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment?

On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker’s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves—a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next moment, Olivia resurfaces, joyously splashing.

What would I do if she didn’t come up? Kate wonders. How would I live without her?

In another set of circumstances that hold a different fate, Kate doesn’t have to wonder. Because in that “other” world, in the pulse-pounding seconds after Olivia goes under, she doesn’t come back up.

Told in parallel timelines, Kate begins to live two lives—one in which Olivia resurfaces and one in which she doesn’t. In the reality that follows her daughter’s death, she maneuvers through every mother’s worst nightmare, facing grief, rage, and the ques­tion of purpose in the aftermath of such profound loss. She endures, day by day, in a world without her daughter.

In her alternate timeline, while she explores a tremulous romance with her best friend, Jason, she finds herself grappling with the ex-husband who abandoned Kate and Olivia years prior. Even as Kate scrambles to hold her daughter close, Olivia pulls further away. The line between joy and loss seems to get thinner with each passing day.

Woven into a single story, both Kates discover a breathtaking fragility and resilience in their respective journeys. Bringing to light the drastic polarities dire circumstances often create, The Other Year explores truths about love, loss, and the sharp turns any life can take in the blink of an eye.

A clever and beautiful novel—the ultimate ‘what if’ book. The emotional pull of Frey’s words made me cry on many occasions and the last line broke me. What a read! —Cesca Major, bestselling author of Maybe Next Time

Tenderly observed and heartfelt. Raw and emotional. The Other Year is sure to strike a chord with readers everywhere. —Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author

In this world-altering women’s fiction novel, single mother Kate Baker looks away for a single moment, only to lose sight of her daughter in the ocean. As a result, her world splits into two separate realities: one where she gets to keep being a mother and the other where she doesn’t. The message is clear: Love your people. A tear-jerker with heart. —Brenda Novak, New York Times bestselling author

Intriguing, thought-provoking . . . Rea Frey breathes life into universal themes concerning love, family, parenthood, forgiveness, grief, and second chances. —The New York Journal of Books

Rea Frey is the award-winning author of several bestselling suspense novels. She is a Silver Falchion Awards Finalist, was voted Chicago Reader’s Best Nonfiction Writer, is a Book Pipeline film adaptation winner, and has been featured in US Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Popsugar, Hello Sunshine, Marie Claire, Shape, Hello Giggles, CrimeReads, Writer’s Digest, WGN, Fox News, Today in Nashville, and Talk of the Town. To learn more, visit reafrey.com.

Vanessa Lillie is the bestselling author of the thrillers Little Voices, For the Best and coauthor of the Young Rich Widows series. Her forthcoming novel, Blood Sisters, launches a new suspense series and releases October 31, 2023.

Books will be available for purchase at the event and in store.

Or purchase online below.

THE OTHER YEAR by Rea Frey

Preorder BLOOD SISTERS by Vanessa Lillie

FOR THE BEST by Vanessa Lillie

LITTLE VOICES by Vanessa Lillie