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What if you had to live the worst day of your year over and over — until you figured out how to actually live it?

Iris Matthews has perfected the art of being fine. Eighteen months after losing her mum, she has a colour-coded grief spreadsheet, a flat in Peckham with Victorian plumbing that hates her, and a family that buys the performance.

Then comes Thursday, 17 October. The career-making Meridian pitch. Her sister Gemma's engagement party. A coffee collision in the lobby with Daniel C...
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What if you had to live the worst day of your year over and over — until you figured out how to actually live it?

Iris Matthews has perfected the art of being fine. Eighteen months after losing her mum, she has a colour-coded grief spreadsheet, a flat in Peckham with Victorian plumbing that hates her, and a family that buys the performance.

Then comes Thursday, 17 October. The career-making Meridian pitch. Her sister Gemma's engagement party. A coffee collision in the lobby with Daniel Chen — an unflappable architect with a lopsided smile, a wallet photograph of his parents, and the unnerving habit of never using contractions.

The pitch is a disaster. The toast makes her ugly-cry in front of everyone. And when Iris finally crawls into bed, she is certain tomorrow cannot possibly be worse.

Tomorrow never comes.

She wakes to the same alarm. The same fourteen texts. The same cold shower. The same Thursday.

Again. And again. And again.

At first, Iris tries to fix the day — fix the pitch, fix her sister, fix herself. But with every loop, the polished version of her cracks a little further, and a small, stubborn, impossible thing starts to grow in the space where her armour used to be: a fire-escape romance with a man who forgets her every morning, and who, somehow, keeps choosing her anyway.

Twenty-six Thursdays in, Iris is going to have to decide what actually breaks a time loop: a perfect day, a perfect kiss, or the messy, terrifying work of finally telling the truth.


Warm, wickedly funny, and quietly devastating, The Same Day Twice is a standalone British rom-com about grief, self-forgiveness, and falling in love in the only place where time stands still.
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