The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Would you want to change anything in your life? A path you didn’t take? Ever wondered what would have happened differently?
Nora Seed, severely depressed, was transported to the Midnight Library, a fantasy location, when she failed to commit suicide. Here a thousand choices waited her of paths she didn’t take: the boyfriend she didn’t marry, the band she should have stayed with, a job in America etc. She lives for a few weeks in these alternative worlds and discovers that none of these were as perfect as she suspected they would be. She finally realizes there were things in her real life that could engage her and give her a purpose. Light and engaging story.
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
Emmett Watson, a young man just released from prison, hopes to go to California with his young brother to start a new life. Instead, his plans are highjacked by two likeable but dysfunctional prisoners who escaped from prison when he was released. Hoping to travel by the Lincoln Highway, his intentions are continuously thwarted by the pair who take him and his brother on a series of diversions to suit their own plans. Adventures and tragedies happen along the way.
Our March book is What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty.
Meg Dillon
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