by Matt Haig
Another book about libraries....
This is a about a young woman who is depressed and down in the dumps. She has just been let go from her low paying job and her piano student has also dropped his lessons. She decides to end it all.
But instead of dying she finds she is in a library with thousands of books. There she meets a Librarian who had befriended her at school in her youth. The Librarian tells her she has the chance to explore various lives and pick one she would like to have. She tries lives where she is a successful musician, a mother, a scientist in the arctic, the co-owner of a California winery, in some she is single, in some divorced, in some she gets along with her brother, in others she doesn't. None of them seem to fulfill her.
She finally sees lives where her Librarian friend has died, her next door neighbour whom she often helped, is alone in a care home, and the young piano student is a juvenile criminal. She decides to live and go back to her old life committed to do what she can to achieve a better life for her and her friends.
It was an okay story, motivational, but you knew all along she would have to have some kind of ephiphany.
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