The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

AS ALWAYS: THIS REVIEW HAS SOME SPOILERS.,

What a unique, interesting book. I had my reservations initially, but this book was lovely - one of a kind, which is difficult to find.

Nora is done living, or so she thinks, and finds herself in the Midnight Library, the place where one isn't exactly dead but not necessarily alive. She is given a large book to read by Mrs. Elm, Nora's personal librarian who, in her real life, was Nora's librarian in school and happened to be with her when she received the news her father passed. The book is all the regrets in Nora's life. The rest of the library is filled with books showing what Nora's life would have been had she not had this or that regret: Think do-overs in life.

What a truly refreshing way author Matt Haig has of bringing to light many ideas of a tiny oops here, or fork in the road there can change the entire trajectory of life, of many lives. This is not a new story told, but a new twist on an old tale.

I would strongly encourage the read.