If Providence Shines Down Upon Me Gently (Paperback)

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LIFE? He's on a cruise. Thirty-eight. Joe McAllister. He has hopes and dreams for the future. He's with his girlfriend, who he's thinking of making his fiancee. Proposing to her. If she'll accept. The first night on the cruise, with their two friends Marlo and Roger who have come along, also, Joe excuses himself and goes to the bathroom, then, when he comes out, everything has changed. He's an old man now; he's lost forty years of his life. He no longer remembers them, those forty years. They take him to the infirmary; they do tests. A DNT scan, which is, apparently, some piece of medical technology in the future. It can see everything in your body, and nothing is wrong with him - except for the fact, that he can't remember, the last forty years of his life. All he knows is that he went to the bathroom, and then he came out, and now forty years have gone past. He's forty years older, seventy-eight, and he's on his anniversary cruise with his wife, now, Theresa, celebrating forty years of marriage, once again on this cruise with their friends, Roger and Marlo. A mind bending adventure, being thrown into old age, Joe begins a journey to discover who he is now, and how he has lived in the past. In the process, he also discovers what he'd been searching for all along - what it means to truly live.