It isn't.
It's not a bad book by any stretch, but I don't think this is a particularly amazing book either.
It's not an original idea. It's just another entry in the list of "What would your life be like if you'd made different choices" subgenre.
Nora is fed up. She never made it as a swimmer when she was young, her music career never took off, her novel never got written, and she's just been sacked from her dead end job in a music store.
She decides to end it all and wakes in a strange library where every book she chooses is one of the lives she could have lived if she'd made different choices.
Cue a string of "Success isn't everything if you don't have your family/friends" type stories and an ending so cheesy the gorgonzola in my fridge is jealous.
It's all very easily readable and moderately entertaining. But it's so predictable. There are no surprises at all at any point in this book.
The lesson at the end is condescending and insulting to pretty much anyone desperate enough to be doing what Nora tries.
I don't think I was bored at any point while I was reading it. But I certainly wasn't particularly entertained either.
This was my first matt Haig book, and almost certainly my last.
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