![]() ![]() ![]() She had “always had the sense that she came from a long line of regrets and crushed hopes that seemed to echo in every generation.” In short order, in a life already littered with remorse, she loses both her job and her beloved cat, Voltaire. She’s estranged from her only living relative, an older brother, and also distant from her only close friend both emotionally and geographically. Nora is a woman with many gifts and few accomplishments. Haig’s central character is 35-year-old Nora Seed. Into this ever-popular genre, Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” is a welcome addition. This deep desire for a different life, or for more lives than just the one, is at the heart of any number of stories - movies like “Groundhog Day,” “Sliding Doors” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” television shows like “Sliders” and “Quantum Leap” wonderful novels like Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life,” Andrew Sean Greer’s “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells,” Jo Walton’s “My Real Children” and many others. Few fantasies are more enduring than the idea that there might be a second chance at a life already lived, some sort of magical reset in which mistakes can be erased, regrets addressed, choices altered. ![]()
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