Summary from GoodReads:

How can you know someone you’ve never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It’s the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of déjà vu is overwhelming her and she can’t figure out why …

My Review:

In 2000, a movie was released with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny starring in it titled Return to Me.  As a read Thanks for the Memories, I kept thinking I was reading the text version of that movie (even though there were some differences, it was very similar).

This book is based on the theory that the blood being pumped from one person’s heart and then used for the purpose of blood infusions is enough to impart knowledge, feelings, likes and dislikes and memories.  Pretty far-fetched, but it makes for a pretty, feel-good, emotional story.. which was what I was in the mood for or this review wouldn’t be nearly as positive as it’s going to be.

I was in desperate need of something “chick lit” and this book gave me just that.  It was a feel good story, despite the sorrow that started it out, and it made me laugh out loud and enjoy reading again.

If you are looking for a good summer beach read, I’d highly recommend this book.  Cecelia Ahern lives up to the hype of her previous books and really delivers with this story.

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