The Midnight Library

“If our lives had turned out differently, would they have been better? We don’t know. But the one we’re given—by itself—is valuable. This is the new novel by Matt Haig.

Between life and death there is a library. Into it a 35-year-old Nora, a music teacher from Bedford, gets one night when suddenly her whole life spirals out of control. The shelves here stretch endlessly. Each book offers a chance to live a life of your own, but completely different—making other choices and, most importantly, not regretting what never happened. It turns out that if Nora had acted differently at one point or another, she could have become a rock star, an Olympic champion, a glaciologist-scientist, a wife and mother—and visited Australia. Would she have been happier?”