
It’s her mother: "Wake up! You're going to be late for school again. Suddenly, Ramie is waking up, straining to understand a voice calling in the distance. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off. On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and champagne. In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty. But despite it all, she can’t ignore the fact that she isn’t necessarily happy. She enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. She made her fortune, and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous.


Thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. Told with Beth Harbison's wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently."
