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Maggie Le Page lives in Christchurch, New Zealand (aka QuakeZone) with her partner, two children, and a snooty cat who thinks they’re all her slaves. Her days are spent running around after kids or doing one of her ‘real’ jobs, so her writing generally happens in the dead of night. (Morning? No. She’s a third-generation night owl. Enough said.)
Maggie loves chocolate, hates being cold, and is ever fascinated by the possibility of time travel. Obviously, her ideal experience would be to wake up on a tropical island eighty years into the future, with an endless supply of chocolate on hand.
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
The Trouble With Dying by Maggie Le Page is a novel of suspense with a touch of humor. Faith Carson wakes up to find herself looking down on her own body from a hospital ceiling. She doesn’t know it’s her, of course; she doesn’t even know who she is or where she is, let alone why she’s on a ceiling. To make matters worse, her long-departed gran has joined her on the ceiling. Faith wants to know why she married the man who wants her life-support switched off. She wants her daughter back and she wants to know who Nate Sutherland is. Nate is in love with Faith but has contented himself with looking from afar. That could all be about to change as Faith decides she wants a second chance a life. She only has until Friday to get back to her body before the ventilator is turned off. Can she do it? And what will she do if she makes it back and wakes up?
The Trouble With Dying by Maggie Le Page is a lovely story, with a bit of humor thrown in for good measure. I loved the characters, they were written in just the right way to draw a reader into their lives and follow them through the story. The story itself had a good plot and was well developed in a way that made me want to keep reading. I wanted to know if Faith would make it back to her body and what she would do when she did. The ending was ... well ... I’ll leave that to you to find out.
