The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Canongate Books Ltd.)

"Never underestimate the big importance of small thing, " Mrs. Elm said.

Nora Seed wants to die, she thinks her life is meaningless, that she ruined everything and everyone around her. And somewhere between life and death, time stops at midnight and library appears. With books where Nora's alternative lives are described in a detail and she can live all of them. Is grass really greener elsewhere?

In quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once, in the same place. Every universe exists over every other universe. Every moment of our lives we enter a new universe with every decision we make. And every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ.

We spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ouselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Nora gets a gift, a shortcut to wisdom and maybe to happiness too.

Such a treat! Brilliant concept, so well written, heartwarming, humorous and full of hope. Celebration of life.

Highly recommended.

5/5