What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to reconcile with someone lost to us, to understand family secrets and to seek forgiveness from a person we love. From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there to welcome Charley home. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a. When he discovers that he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding he realises he has hit rock bottom.Ĭharley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown his final journey before he ends his life. For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret.

'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia AhernĪs a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.ĭecades later, Charley is a broken man.

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For one more day by mitch albom