The Versions of Us
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In one moment, two lives will be changed forever ... and forever ... and forever. The one thing that's certain is that they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next ... They fell wildly in love or went their separate ways. They kissed or they thought better of it. They married soon after or were together for a few weeks before splitting up. They grew distracted and disappointed with their daily lives together or found solace together only after hard years spent apart. With The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett has created a world as magical and affecting as those that captivated readers in One Day and Life after Life. It is a tale of possibilities and consequences that rings across the shifting decades, from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and on to the present, showing how even the smallest choices can define the course of our lives.
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Amazing debut novel! It's hard not to give anything away. Jim and Eva meet at university and fall for each other. Their initial powerful encounter is portrayed in three slightly different ways, related in the first three chapters. Their lives veer and from there onward, a major life episode is told in three consecutive chapters, as the reader is pulled in different directions by the effects of chance and destiny in our lives and how the past is always with us. The characters are wonderfully complex and interesting. Barnett's prose is lovely. The story is captivating. The ending satisfying.
WAY too confusing at the beginning, but got easier (for a while, until they started adding in grandchildren et al. But solid 3.5 stars for cool concept.
