Some Other Time

A Novel

By: Angela Brown

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

A hopeful, funny, and untraditional love story about second chances, the ripple effects of love, and the myriad ways in which the simplest lives have the power to change the world.

The next step in Ellie Baker’s marriage: divorce. She and her husband, Jonah, are heading to Florida to break it to the family. No great drama to share. After twenty years of marriage, they’ve just fallen out of love. Simple.

Not to their college-age daughter, Maggie, who is devastated. Or to Ellie’s father, Frank, who grows as cold as a retiree can get in Orlando. As for Ellie’s mother, Bunny: no, no, no. She doesn’t want to hear it. After a dreadful weekend, Ellie and Jonah return home to New Jersey with hearts and minds still set on a split. Until the extraordinary morning Ellie wakes up to an alternate version of the present day—one in which she, and a passing stranger named Jonah, never married.

Over the span of an inexplicable week, Ellie sees how her world—and the world of everyone she loves—unfolded through a different course in time. And this time could change everything all over again.

©2025 by Angela Brown. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Menopausal woman feels sorry for herself

Rather than seek hormone treatment or see a therapist, Ellie creates an alternate universe where she didn't meet and marry her husband, who she blames for her unhappiness, only to spend all the time in the alternate universe seeking out her husband and coming to understand she's not the center of everyone else's universe, especially the daughter she never had in the alternate story. Lots of Ellie complaining about her own choices. Ellie is depressed. I think I've read too many self-help books to relate to Ellie because I just wanted her to quit complaining and take some accountability. I think this story is about relationships between husband and wife, but mostly mother-daughter and self. didn't understand the 11:11 mystical transport in time.

Great Characters

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The characters were charming and genuine. The storyline was realistic and relatable. Definitely liked the lol moments especially when the book headed into serious issues. I absolutely would recommend this audio.

Narration was really good. Although the narrator didn’t seem to convey changes in the casts voices it was not a detriment.

Almost didn’t finish

This story took way too long to unravel and the main character didn’t really evolve. Her validation and self-value was only when others loved or needed her and the entire story is her feeling sorry for herself. Only reason I finished this was because I really tried to like it.