George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of тАУ the chance to live his life again.
After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old тАУ and suddenly everything changes...
He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter тАУ and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move.
He makes love to his wife all night long тАУ instead of from midnight until about five past. And suddenly he wants to change the world, just as soon as he shakes off his hangover.
But George Bailey discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be тАУ and what he actually wants more than anything in the universe is to have his old life back.
Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels тАУ One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife тАУ were all bestsellers. He lives in London.