The Midnight Library (cover) Haig M.

If our lives had turned out differently, would they have been better? We don't know. But the life we are given is valuable in itself – that's what Matt Haig's new novel is about.
Between life and death, there is a library. Nora, a 35-year-old music teacher from Bedford, finds herself there when one night her whole life falls apart. The shelves here stretch endlessly. Each book offers a chance to live your own, but completely different life. To make different decisions and, most importantly, not to regret what never happened. It turns out that if Nora had acted differently at one moment or another in her life, she could have become a rock star, an Olympic champion, a glaciologist, a wife and mother, or visited Australia.
But would she have been happier?