Within the span of two days, Nora’s cat, Voltaire, dies, her estranged brother visits town but ignores her, she’s fired from her job at the music store String Theory, and her only music pupil, Leo, cancels his lessons. Nora still lives in Bedford and is living a lackluster life. The narrative jumps 19 years into the future. Elm that Nora’s father has just died from a heart attack. Elm encourages Nora to leave Bedford and to take up glaciology. Elm reminds Nora that she can travel anywhere and be anything she likes. Nora has recently given up swimming professionally, to the chagrin of her father. The Prologue takes place in the Hazeldene School library, where Nora plays chess with the school librarian, Mrs. You can live a full and rich life if you want, you just have to act like it.The novel opens with a startling fact: The main character, Nora Seed, will attempt suicide 19 years after the events of the Prologue. You have to see your own potential and do something with it. You just have to make it as good as it can be. I think what this book tells us is that we can regret as much as we want but in the end no life is perfect. She has potential of living a good and true life. She decides that she has potential, a word with a hard but true meaning. In the end she finds out that her root life, cause that how she calls it, is her one true life. However every time there was something negative about the life too, her brother died. She was an olympic swimmer, a glaciologist in the arctic, a popstar. She visited a lot of the lives by starting to read the book and being transported in it but none felt like hers. There was one book that was called 'the book of regrets' and that's where everything she ever regretted was written down.
Every book was a different life she could have had if she made a decision different, how small it even was. It's a huge library that goes on forever and her previous primary school-librarian was there too. One night she decided to take an overdose and kill herself and that's when she ended up in the midnight library. Her parents died before and she never had a good bond with her brother. She was living a really boring life without good friends, lost her job and everything else that brought her joy.
It told the story about a woman in her thirties who lived in a really small town in England.
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