Colleen Oakley – Mondays

Author of BEFORE I GO

(Gallery/Simon & Schuster, January 2015)

Colleen Oakley is the author of Before I Go, a love story set in Athens, Ga. A University of Georgia grad (Go Dawgs!), Colleen is the former editor-in-chief of Women’s Health & Fitness and senior editor of Marie Claire. Her articles and essays have been featured in The New York Times, Redbook, Martha Stewart Weddings and Parade, among others. When she’s not writing, Colleen can be found training for triathlons she has no hope of winning and trying to answer the thousands of questions her two curious kids ask on a daily basis (“No, I don’t know where Arendale is. The North Pole is a good guess.”) She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Fred, their aforementioned kids and a huge lapdog named Bailey.

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About BEFORE I GO

A heart-wrenching debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman with breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband before she passes away.

Twenty-seven-year-old Daisy already beat breast cancer three years ago. How can this be happening to her again?

On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant “Cancerversary” with her husband Jack to celebrate three years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it’s an aggressive stage four diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. Death is a frightening prospect—but not because she’s afraid for herself. She’s terrified of what will happen to her brilliant but otherwise charmingly helpless husband when she’s no longer there to take care of him. It’s this fear that keeps her up at night, until she stumbles on the solution: she has to find him another wife.

With a singular determination, Daisy scouts local parks and coffee shops and online dating sites looking for Jack’s perfect match. But the further she gets on her quest, the more she questions the sanity of her plan. As the thought of her husband with another woman becomes all too real, Daisy’s forced to decide what’s more important in the short amount of time she has left: her husband’s happiness—or her own?

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