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    The One That I Want: A Novel

    Written by Allison Winn Scotch

    Narrated by Allyson Ryan

    3.5/5

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    When Tilly's seemingly perfect life starts changing around her, she must decide which is the life she wants-- the one she's carefully tended for decades or the one she never considered possible?

    Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the life she always dreamed of married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown and trying for a baby. Perfect. On the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, and while her father drowned his grief in alcohol, she was left to play parent to her two younger sisters rather than be a kid herself. Still Tilly never let tragedy overtake her belief that hard work and good cheer could solve any problem. Of course she's also spent a lifetime plastering a smile on her face and putting everyone else's problems ahead of her own. But that relentless happiness has served her well-her sisters are grown and content, her dad is ten years sober, and she's helping her students achieve all their dreams while she and her husband, Tyler, start a family. A perfect life indeed.

    One sweltering afternoon at the local fair, everything changes when Tilly wanders into the fortune teller's tent and is greeted by an old childhood friend, now a psychic. "I'm giving you the gift of clarity," her friend says. "It's what I always thought you needed." Soon Tilly starts seeing things-- her father relapsing, staggering out of a bar and Tyler uprooting their happy, stable life, a packed U-Haul in the driveway. Even more disturbing, these visions start coming true. Suddenly Tilly's perfect life, so meticulously mapped out, seems to be crumbling around her. And she's not sure what's more frightening: that she's begun to see the future or what the future holds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9780307736550
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    The One That I Want: A Novel
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    Allison Winn Scotch

    Allison Winn Scotch is the author of the New York Times bestseller Time of My Life and The One That I Want. She lives in New York with her family.

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    • 1/5
      Wow: terrible!! Boring tale about common house wife...blabla... BORING!!!!
    • 5/5
      Probably my favorite one of all three novels! Could not put it down! Keeps you guessing throughout the book as you follow Tilly on her journey! Very similar writing style to Time of My Life!
    • 4/5
      At first blush, I thought The One That I Want was going to have the same premise as Time of My Life - that Tilly was going to have the opportunity to change her future. Instead, Tilly has the ability to see certain future events, but no ability to change them. She has been given the gift of clarity...a gift I think we could all use.When Tilly's world starts crashing in on her, she is confused and angry. She's always done the right thing, always been the good girl, the one that held everything together...how unfair, she thinks, that it's now starting to fall apart, especially when she doesn't want it to.Tilly could never imagine having a different life, living in a different city, being with a different guy, not being in complete control. She's suddenly thrust into a situation that changes everything she's ever known. How she adapts to, and ultimately embraces, those changes is the crux of the story.Allison Winn Scotch is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I really enjoyed The One That I Want...the characters were well developed (although I would have liked a little more detail on what was going through Tyler's head) and the story flowed well. It wasn't too drawn out and I finished it in a day and a half. A perfect beach read.
    • 2/5
      Synopsis: Tilly Farmer loves her life. She loves her job as a high school guidance counselor, she loves her high school sweetheart husband, and she loves that she and her husband are finally trying to have a baby. To some, including Tilly, it appears that Tilly has the perfect life. Then one hot summer afternoon, Tilly attends the school fair. She encounters a girl from her past, Ashley, who is the fair's fortune teller. Instead of telling Tilly her fortune, Ashley says she is going to give Tilly some much needed "clarity."Tilly decides to dismiss the entire episode until something bizarre begins to happen to her. One moment, Tilly is just fine. The next, she is having a vision of her dad, a recovering alcoholic, falling off the wagon and wrecking his car. More bizarre than having the vision is having the vision come true. Quite literally, Tilly begins to see the world in an entirely new way, and she doesn't enjoy most of what she sees. Soon, Tilly's world is unraveling, and Tilly is forced to learn that what we believe to be true and what are actually true are two very different things.Review: I've read Allison Winn Scotch's other two works, The Department of Lost and Found and The Time of My Life, and I adored them both. Unfortunately, my experience with The One That I Want was much different. My first problem was the characters, especially Tilly. I did not like Tilly, and when you don't like the central character in a novel, it makes it a little difficult to care about the story itself. I found Tilly to be really self-absorbed for a character that spends the majority of the novel claiming that all her actions are for others. For Tilly, everything was about Tilly and keeping her perfect life perfect.I thought the plot of the novel was pretty thin. A character having visions that come true would normally sound like a story tailor made for me, but the plot of this novel was, for lack of a better word, hokey. Therein lies the problem with this novel for me. I felt the whole thing was wrapped up with a big hokey bow. Nothing felt real. I am not a reader that needs 100% realism. Magical realism and fantasy are two of my favorite novels. But whatever the genre or the novel may be, I need to feel a genuine connection to the characters and an interest in their fate (i.e., the plot). I didn't have that with this book.I still adore Allison Winn Scotch and I look forward to her upcoming novel, The Memory of Us.
    • 3/5
      A typical chick-lit book about boy meets girl in school, become high school sweethearts, then after being married a few years he decides he really doesn't care for married life and wants to move on. Wife never has a clue? A quick read but no substance.
    • 3/5
      I picked this book up at the library because it has such a compelling cover and it sounded pretty good on the jacket. I was a little disapointed however. I'm not thrilled with books that portray disfunctional relationships. They tend to depress me. It does end on a fairly hopeful note so I gave it three stars even though it made me sad. I don't read to be sad. I will say that "The One That I Want" is well written and the characters are compelling. I enjoyed the physic elements in it as well.
    • 2/5
      Interesting premise, I would say. The plot is good, and I really wanted to find out what happened to the motley cast of characters. Tilly, however, was annoying to say the least. Before her dose of 'clarity,' I wanted to tell her to grow up and move on. She couldn't accept change at all. When anyone made the utterly audacious decision to uproot themselves and leave the medium-sized town of Westlake (gasp!), she just could not understand their reasoning. A personal quibble that I had involved Westlake, a town of 81,000. In my opinion, this should not be the tiny 'everybody knows everybody' type town (at least not in my experience). While that size is small and obviuosly is not a city atmosphere, I don't feel like the gossip would be quite as intense as Winn Scotch tried to make it, and I definitely don't think it's the kind of thing where you never leave the house without seeing someone you know. I've lived in a 'small town' of that size for many years have never had those kind of experiences that Tilly comes to loathe. Obviously, this wasn't integral to the outcome of the book, but it bugged me!I also disliked the sentence structure (many, many, many commas, colons, semi-colons), flow of time (one paragraph it's morning, another evening, another 5 days later), and rapidly used profanity. I can tolerate curse words sparingly; it just naturally comes out in everyday conversation and in thought processes as well. However, Tilly would just go off on these furious rampages, and I just wanted to tell her to chill. Personally, I think an educated character like Tilly should have been able to express her emotions more rationally no matter how angry or outraged she might have been. Since I've only ranted thus far, I should say that the cover is awesome! What an amazing shot. Also, the writing was descriptive and vivid on the whole. For this reason, I'll try another Allison Winn Scotch novel another time.But overall, I struggled with this one. I kept reading because the premise won me over and had me flipping pages. If you like chick-lit with a magical yet realistic twist, then try The One That I Want. I had lots of personal problems with it, but you all aren't me (whew!) so maybe your experiences will be different!
    • 4/5
      Tilly is a very happy 32 year old who is planning to have a baby with her husband the day her life starts to fall apart. Or at least Tilly thought she was happy. As she wanders aimlessly around the town fair she happens upon a fortune teller's tent and finds her old friend who bestows upon her the gift of "clarity". From that point on, Tilly begins to have visions of the future which she seems helpless to control. Her father relapses back into alcoholism, her husband leaves her and a number of other events haunt Tilly as she tries to understand how to get back to the way things were before, when things were simple. Prior to her "gift", Tilly had been the one who helped everyone, who was satisfied to stay forever in her small town, and who still dearly cherished her high school cheerleader memories. After the visions begin, Tilly is forced to confront her assumptions about her life, her role in her family and meaning of happiness. I enjoyed this book and raced through it. I didn't always care for Tilly's character as I thought she was pretty shallow and self-centered throughout the book, though I enjoyed the concept of her gift and how she used it. Allison Winn Scotch is a great storyteller and as a reader, I love the devices she uses to link past and present. I will eagerly look forward to her next book!
    • 5/5
      I love this book. Winn Scotch always seems to write about slightly fantastic devices that enable her narrators to jump around in time; the payoff is keen insight into human nature and the choices we make. This time around, she writes about Tilly, a tightly-wound woman who never left the town she grew up in, and works at her old high school as a guidance counselor. The peak of Tilly's existence is designing the theme for the prom. Until she meets Ashley, a former classmate turned fortuneteller. Ashley gives Tilly the gift of clarity - i.e., she can look into the future. Most of what she sees is bad. But the fascinating part is, it really is a gift.
    • 5/5
      Tilly Farmer is living the perfect life.... She's married to her high school sweetheart, Tyler, her best friend is not only her oldest friend but also her co-worker, she lives in the same town that she grew up in with her immediate family living close by and she and Tyler have finally reached an agreement that it is time to make a baby. Life can't get any better.One afternoon during a school festival Tilly wanders into a booth to find her old middle school friend, Ashley, who is now a fortune teller. After a quick recap from Tilly as to how perfect her life has turned out since they were friends, Ashley tells her that she is going to give her the gift of clarity.Now by clarity, Tilly never expected that she would start seeing future events. And these events are not what she expected nor does it seem can she do anything to change them. As her perfect world slowly starts to crumble she must find a way of understanding her deeper feelings and can't help but find herself questioning why the foundation to such a perfect life came undone so easily.Wow! Allison Winn Scotch has yet again made me fall in love with another one of her books. Not only does she create a variety of likeable and relateable characters, but you find yourself caring for them and even holding your breath to see how the turn of events will play out. You not only care for Tilly, but for her sisters Luanne and Darcy, her best friend Susanna and even for her old friend Ashley not to mention some of the residents of the town of Westlake. Women of all ages will be able to relate to one aspect of this novel or another. Although it is considered to be chick-lit, I would not say it is a light read without depth. This will definitely appeal to readers who have questioned the "what if"... what if we had we chosen a different path in life. Tilly is faced with many tough questions regarding her life choices and you will find that you cannot help asking yourself some of those same questions - very thought-provoking.All in all, I truly enjoyed this and really didn't want it to end. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Tilly Farmer has the perfect life. The life she always wanted. The life she deserves after so much sadness and having to grow up too fast as the family caretaker and surrogate mother. At least she thinks it's the perfect life. She's married to her high school sweetheart, living in the town where she grew up, and is the guidance counselor at the local high school. She and her husband are finally trying to have a baby, she is excited about finding the perfect prom theme (An Evening in Paris), and she's putting on the school musical (Grease), the same one from her senior year. Everything is going right. Until it isn't anymore. Tilly goes to the local fair and wanders into the fortune teller's tent. There she discovers an old friend who offers her the "gift of clarity" without telling Tilly anything of the future. That is for Tilly to discover herself as she starts having visions after this encounter. And they aren't visions she wants to live out but she doesn't have a choice. They are her future: her father falling off the wagon and descending back into alcoholism, her husband leaving to pursue the life he has sacrificed for her, and so many other things she never planned.Tilly is an endearing character. She's been a rock and a Pollyanna for much of her life and she is much younger emotionally than her years. This book is really a sort of coming of age for her despite the fact that she is in her thirties. It is a lesson in tapping into her emotions and really learning to feel and to accept. It's not a comfortable lesson for her by any stretch of the imagination and she wonders who she is becoming as her less pleasant feelings, long tamped down and ignored, roil to the surface. But this change and growth make her a delightfully well-rounded character. If she had stayed the perpetually upbeat woman who never really progressed beyond her high school persona, she would have been irritating as all get out and the reader wouldn't have had any sympathy as she had to face the world and life in all its messy, often times terrible, glory.With a main character who has sort of lost herself along the way, refusing to see her husband's feelings of stagnation, being annoyed with her younger sister for not treading the path Tilly had mapped out for her, mothering her father, and generally being relentlessly cheerful in turning a blind eye, this will appeal to fans of chick lit without following the traditional chick lit plot arc. As it is, Tilly has discovered that the accusation she flung at her retreating husband, that he didn't know what happiness is, is becoming less true of herself as she faces the newly forged path that is her life. She is indeed learning about happiness and not mistaking the safe and unexamined status quo for this most precious of feelings. Even though the lesson Tilly learns sounds heavy, this is a good, fun, light, beachy read for the summer.
    • 4/5
      If you were to ask Tilly, she'd tell you she has the perfect life. She's married to her high school sweetheart and she still works at said high school (as a guidance counselor) so she gets to go to prom every year. She and her husband are even trying to have a baby.But then she goes into a fortune teller's tent and the woman (an old friend of Tilly's) gives her the "gift of clarity." Except it's not really a gift so much as a complete nightmare. She starts seeing things--her alcoholic father getting drunk at a bar; her husband packing up and moving--and the visions start happening.It's an interesting premise--as her books tend to be--and while I preferred Time of My Life, I enjoyed this one, too. I don't know if I would want to know the future, especially if I couldn't do anything to change it.
    • 4/5
      This novel follows the quintessential small town girl through some startling and life changing events. Silly Tilly was a cheerleader in high school who ended up marrying the star jock, her one and only true love. She lives in the town where she grew up and is a guidance councilor at the high school that she never really left. Tilly, like her husband and many of the other small towners, peaked in high school.Or so you think, until Tilly meets up with an old grade school friend, Ashley, who changes her life for worse or for better. Ashley bestows the gift of Clarity to Tilly.The novel is easy to read, surprising at times, and predictable at others. The author presents reoccurring themes that end up changing as the main character does. The book opens up to show a shallow, predictable, and even slightly annoying character. However, the author shows a more insightful knowledge of her character as well as human behavior.A good read, although perhaps not something to be taken into lightly. This novel may just cause you to re-evaluate your own life. Do you know what makes you truly happy?
    • 3/5
      I found the author's choice of words to be very distracting. Example: "she peeled back her gums to show her teeth." Really? I would have sworn those were lips you usually pull back. Also, "she plugged her camera into the cord" when the other way around would have made sense. If I had more books in the house to read I would have ditched this one early on.
    • 5/5
      What do you do when your perfectly laid out life is unraveling before your eyes? And what if you are given visions of the unraveling before it even starts? This is the dilemma that faces 32-year-old Tilly Farmer in New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch’s charming third novel, THE ONE THAT I WANT.Tilly Farmer has been given the gift of clarity. Her once perfect life as a high school guidance counselor married to her high school sweetheart is coming apart at the seams. The problems arise when Tilly is given tiny glimpses of these tears before they happen. Her picture-perfect life is tipped on its axis and suddenly the long buried and ignored flaws are starting to show. Her marriage starts crumbling, her issues with her father resurface and her once adequate life suddenly starts to lose its luster. Everything Tilly everbelieved in is being challenged and even her glimpses at the future create more questions than answers. Throughout this heartfelt, honest and poignant journey into the soul of one woman we learn that, “everyone needs to come unraveled every once in awhile, even the people who seemingly have it totally held together.”Allison Winn Scotch has written a story of hope and survival in everyday life, an empowering novel with a likable and believable protagonist and a thoughtful journey. What Scotch does impeccably well is give her readers a great concept (what if you could see the future?) and expand on it with believable, authentic characters and graceful prose. Her books are always a treat and this one is bound to delight readers. You will finish this book feeling inspired and optimistic. A great read!
    • 3/5
      Tilly Farmer and I have a lot in common. We are both 32. We both married our high school sweethearts. And we both work in high schools in the towns where we grew up. You would think that all this similarity would breed familiarity, but I found Tilly very difficult to take until the very end of the book. Ironically, I think it was all these similarities that made it harder for me to like her, made me focus on our differences. Tilly, in the beginning, loves prom (I avoid the sponsor for weeks before so I don’t have to chaperone), always smiles to fix a problem (anyone who knows me will tell you that I prefer yelling), and thinks her boy-man husband is adorable when he falls asleep watching another baseball game (um…I don’t even know how to answer this!).So as the novel begins, Tilly is “blind” in more ways than one. The fact that it took her two hundred pages to recognize that her husband was a poor spouse was aggravating. The way that she makes excuses for her alcoholic father was not helpful. And the way Tilly spent so much of the book telling me everything was perfect made me want to scream. She ignored the issues in her life for too long in the novel for me to truly love it. And it was this slow beginning that made her ultimate discovery-which came very quickly in the end-lose its punch.The shining spots of this work came in the end. When Tilly finally finds clarity, she is inspirational. She relaxes and lets the other people in her life handle their own problems. She learns to let go, and that her students, her siblings, and her spouse are able to think without her constant guidance and cliched advice. Tilly almost won me back in these last wonderful fifty pages. She further reminded me of our similarities, when she realizes what she has given up for her family. “I abandoned it: for Darcy, for my family, for my father. I lost myself for them, which we all have to do every once in a while but probably shouldn’t do forever.” What mother, wife, teacher hasn’t sacrificed a lot for their family only to occasionally want it back?Scotch shows she is a good writer in lines like the ones above, but it was too little, too late to win me back entirely. This is the first time that I have ever read her work, and I would like to read Time of My Life-her first novel. Allison’s blog, Ask Allison, is always witty and insightful, and although I never comment I always wish I would. The One that I Want is an interesting idea, but I hope that Scotch’s other works cuts to the chase a little faster, and that maybe the characters don’t have lives so close to mine!
    • 3/5
      In The One That I Want , Tilly Farmer is a married 32 year old guidance counselor, working for the same high school she graduated from. She is married to Tyler, her high school sweetheart, and the two are now trying to have a baby. They both live in the town they grew up in. One afternoon Tilly goes to the town carnival and decides to see the fortune teller, who happens to be one of her old classmates. The fortune teller gives Tilly the 'gift of clarity' and sends her on her way. Tilly's life is far from perfect. Her mother died to cancer when she was 16, leaving her 2 sisters, her father and herself heartbroken. Tilly managed to cope, but her father succumbed to alcoholism and her younger sister still resents him for it. Now that Tilly has seen the fortune teller, she suddenly has strange episodes where she has visions of the future. When she 'sees' her father getting into his car drunk, then receives the phone call from the police station telling her he is being held for DWI, she begins to wonder how powerful this 'gift of clarity' really is. Before she knows it, Tilly begins to have other visions of the future, including one where she sees her husband packing his belongings and leaving town. Tilly begins to realize that things aren't what she thought they once were. I both liked and disliked The One That I Want . The storyline was interesting and I enjoyed the magical realism aspect of it, but for some reason I just could not connect with Tilly's character. She wasn't annoying or anything, I just didn't feel any type of connection to her.I hate to sound nitpicky, but one thing that bothered me was the language in the story, at times it felt uncalled for and distracting. Don't get me wrong, I'm the first one to drop the 'F' bomb in conversation, but in this story it just distracted me a bit. It felt like it was overdone in some of the conversations. I know Tilly was mad with the situation, but I'd rather have seen her less on the defense.Like I said, the storyline was interesting. I did enjoy the friendship Tilly has with her best friend Susanna. I liked how the two support each other through thick and thin. There's a scene where Tilly and a few of the girls get together for Susanna's birthday. They have dinner and drink wine and just vent, that felt realistic and I always enjoy female friendships in stories.There is a plot twist and the end that I thought was good also. All in all, this was an okay read for me. I do recommend it, others might love it. Though I didn't particularly love this book, I would definitely read Allison Winn Scotch again.
    • 4/5
      From My Blog...Well-written and beautifully descriptive, The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scott is a novel about happiness, a simple word, yet difficult to obtain. I struggled in the beginning thinking I was about to read another clichéd (a baby will make Tilly's good life perfect), and at times unrealistic (the friend turned psychic), novel. Thankfully my earliest judgments were proven entirely incorrect. Yes Tilly does gain insight, rather the gift of clarity, from her classmate Ashley Simmons, and yes she would like to have a baby, but there the comparison ends. The One That I Want is an astonishingly deep look at the many facets and complications life offers on a daily basis. Scott introduces the readers to a diverse cast of characters, each one with their own strengths and weaknesses, family problems, marital issues, or the regular personal issues. The reader will quickly become absorbed into the lives of Tilly, Darcy, Susanna, Luanne, and Ashley and the small town of Westlake and the secrets kept and lessons learned. The One That I Want is a delightfully fresh and witty novel which looks at some fairly complex life issues all the while Scott reminds the reader, "sometimes we are all a little stuck". I highly recommend The One That I Want to anyone looking for a wonderful book to read with powerful messages of love, family, hope and happiness despite the odds.