Honestly, this is just a 3 or 3.5 star - but I rounded up for the excellent narration from Lauren Graham. She made the book sparkle despite some pretty big shortfalls. I immediately identified with this book having lost my mother around the same age, but, the execution of the "magic" was just too unbelievable for me. When Katy's mother dies she decides to hop on a plane on go on the trip to Positano Italy that she and her mother had been planning for months. She can barely function but she hopes that seeing the place her mother had loved as a young woman would help make her feel closer to her. Katy is barely functioning as her mom was her best friend and the most important person in her life (even more than her husband!). While she is in Positano she sees her mother as a 30 year old, which is impossible, yet it's her, it is somehow her mother reincarnated as her younger self. Later we find out that Katy has somehow traveled back into time to the same summer that her mother was in Italy. Katy NEVER questions this or anything. She is just so excited to see her mother and befriend her that she doesn't question anything. Like HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! There are some heartwarming moments and she has to accept that her mother was not perfect. Another thing I loved besides the narration was all the food writing and the descriptions of the Italian countryside. Charming, yet ridiculously unbelievable.
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