In Any Lifetime

A Novel

By: Marc Guggenheim

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife is still alive in this bold and thought-provoking novel.

Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds. But on the best night of his life—the night his wife, Amanda, tells him they’re finally having a baby—everything is taken away when a tragic car accident claims the lives of Amanda and their unborn child.

Gutted by pain, Jonas sets out to find a way to bring back Amanda—or rather, find a parallel universe in which she’s still alive. But that’s easier said than done. As Jonas comes to understand all too well, the universe favors certain outcomes…and Amanda’s death is one of them.

Guggenheim’s novel takes readers on a suspenseful journey, intercutting scenes of Jonas’s frantic, present-day search across multiple realities with glimpses from the past of his unfolding romance and eventual marriage. Will Jonas and Amanda reunite in some other world, or will fate succeed in taking her from him forever?

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Critic reviews

“Marc Guggenheim is one of the great imaginative minds of our medium and a born storyteller, yarn weaver, and world creator of the highest order. Dive in!”—Guillermo del Toro

“Heartfelt and beautifully written, In Any Lifetime elegantly leaps between science fiction and romance, begging you to ask the age-old question: How far will you go for the one you love?”—Brad Meltzer, #1 bestselling author of The Lightning Road and The Escape Artist

“In Any Lifetime is a special book, the kind that seamlessly weaves genres together to tell a story that feels vibrant and fresh but also timeless. A multiverse thriller/romance that is packed with heart and stakes—I was hooked from page one.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity

Great story

I'm a big fan of alternate reality stories, especially when they're done well. And Guggenheim definitely does this one well.

Boring II

The story was so boring that I kept quitting and then going back. In the end I couldn’t finish. The author frequently uses highly dramatic words when such drama is not needed. I did think the science was interesting. Unfortunately, the authors take on romantic entanglements, lacks the interest of quantum theory.

Makes you think...

Multiverses intrigue me. This story does justice to the possibilities. I do wish the narrator had been a little less dramatic because the story didn't need it but it was worth the listen. And who knows. Maybe the next me will like that drama!

Boring

Interesting premise but not well done, slow and boring, about halfway through I was ready to give up, everything was predictable.

The narrator was amazing, the story-meh

This story was ok. It was a bit too technical at times, and the protagonist was not terribly compelling, particularly at the end of the book.