Peggy Mandell, newly widowed, cannot conjure a future without her husband of more than forty years. The bed is half empty. Her body betrays her. Laughter is elusive. Filled with longing, chased by memory, Mandell begins to write letters to the man she loved, retracing their history together.

But when a tenderhearted college professor steps quietly into her life, when he listens, attentively, as Mandell reads her accumulating stack of letters out loud, she is forced to recalibrate her vision of life—what is still possible, what is still necessary, how much love one heart can hold.

And Always One More Time is a story of second chances and disarming self-disclosure that takes a wholly universal look at the ways in which we bring our pasts forward to keep becoming our best selves.