When You Look Back

Two fathers. Two children. One impossible second chance. Dan Costello and Martin Reid never met while they were alive. They have three things in common: they died too young, left fourteen-year-old children behind, and are both spectacularly unqualified for the afterlife. Because of how they lived-and how they died-they are given one extraordinary opportunity: to guide their children from afar. No touching. No speaking. No appearing in dreams. Just the occasional nudge, a great deal of arguing, and the discovery that teenagers rarely take advice from the living, never mind the dead. As Sam and Clara stumble through grief, first love, bad decisions and growing up, their fathers form an unlikely friendship of their own. But borrowed time cannot last forever, and both families must learn that moving forward does not mean leaving love behind. Funny, tender and quietly devastating, When You Look Back is an uplifting story about friendship, family, grief and the people who continue to shape us long after they are gone.