Monica Tymofievich

3 rating- explained below-Loved this book - the story telling, witty and clever way of weaving the story and of course my favourite of alternate or parallel lives. However, my rating is based on an obvious omission to the several ‘what if’ relationships explored. Every character, minor or not had their chance to be developed in different lives of Nora, most notably her father. The author never once examines the relationship Nora may have had with her deceased mother. Not once. This is a curious and glaring emptiness to Nora’s otherwise deep and thorough examination of her other selves and people in them. Left me wondering why Haig omitted this, as isn’t the mother-daughter relationship the most root of a root story? Left me disappointed and otherwise leaving a rating of 3.