If I had to describe it in a word it would be flimsy. There were a few plot points that remained unresolved and I thought some of the characters weren’t given time to breathe properly. It had the same fast pace and dry wit, the problem was that it felt hurried and slapdash. My main disappointment with this book wasn’t how similar it was to WDYGB after all, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Timby has been sent home from Galer Street after faking a tummy bug and she discovers that Joe has told his colleagues he’ll be taking a week off from work even though he’s told her he’d be at work. The plot follows Eleanor over the course of one day trying to navigate, well, life. OK to be fair, that’s where the similarities end. She’s tormented by annoying Galer Street parents and tech yuppies working for Microsoft Amazon.

She lives with her precocious only child Bee Timby*, who attends Galer Street School (now located in a sprawling mansion on a hill.), her loyal but dopey hound Ice Cream Yo-Yo, and her loving but distracted husband Elgin Joe. The protagonist, Bernadette Eleanor, is a wildly talented middle-aged architect illustrator who seems to have lost her creative mojo after moving from New York to boring suburban Seattle. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.ĭEJA VU, so much deja vu.This is a (sort of) sequel to Where'd You Go Bernadette, and there are several similarities between the two. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation.

Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe.

She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. But today, she will tackle the little things. A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.Įleanor knows she's a mess.

Today will be different book