Esli by nasha zhizn slozhilas po-drugomu, byla by ona luchshe? My ne znaem. No ta, kotoraya nam dana, - tsenna sama po sebe, ob etom novyy roman Metta Heyga.
Mezhdu zhiznyu i smertyu est biblioteka. V nee-to i popadaet 35-letnyaya Nora, uchitelnitsa muzyki iz Bedforda, kogda odnazhdy nochyu vsya ee zhizn poletela pod otkos. Polki zdes tyanutsya beskonechno. Kazhdaya kniga daet shans prozhit svoyu sobstvennuyu, no sovsem druguyu zhizn. Prinimat drugie resheniya i, glavnoe, ne sozhalet o tom, chto kogda-to ne sluchilos. Okazyvaetsya, postupi Nora inache v tot ili inoy moment zhizni, ona mogla by stat rok-zvezdoy, olimpiyskoy chempionkoy, uchenym-glyatsiologom, zhenoy i materyu, pobyvat v Avstralii. No stala by ona schastlivee?