It All Begins With Goodbye (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781777903251)

Recent widow Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson embarks on a journey of discovery only to find there may be no line between reality and imagination-and no such thing as time.

What does it mean to live a life? To react to whatever life throws at you? Or is it to write your own story? Create Your own life. These were the questions Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson began to face as she tried to shed the cloak of widowhood she had been wearing for over a year. To begin again.

Charlie's dilemma was that to begin again, she knew she would finally have to say goodbye. And that was her problem. With the help of her daughter, Frankie and her sister, Evelyn, Charlie takes the first step by agreeing to travel to Mallorca to take a course. The focus of the course is making replica Chanel jackets, something Charlie has long wanted to accomplish. She soon learns that there is much more to the course than making jackets.

Charlie finds herself confronted by secrets and mysteries-secrets borne by the people she meets and mysteries about her own life. As she learns the intricacies of creating her imitation Chanel jacket, she begins to question what's real and what's not-in both the world around her and in her life. When by chance, she meets Patrick, an art history professor whose presence conjures deep feelings of déjà vu for both of them, Charlie and Patrick embark on a journey back through time to 1920s Paris, where they find their lives intertwined with two Parisian lovers.

Now all they need to do is figure out how to say goodbye to begin again.