It took me a good few days after putting this book down to decide how I felt about it.

The Other Us features a discontented wife in a marriage gone stale. She reflects on her life and the more passionate decisions she could have made in her love life and career - namely, by running away with her high school sweetheart and bad-boy Jude. When she wakes, she has travelled back in time to the day her husband proposes to her (and the day Jude asks her to run away with him.) She gets to make all of her decisions anew in two separate timelines, with interesting effects on her child (or lack thereof) and her best friend.

It is a fascinating book of self-discovery, which taught me to step out of my "the grass is always greener on the other side" mindset and taught me the importance of appreciating and nourishing what we have rather than resenting it. It seems silly, but this was a lesson that really stuck with me and I have already begun to apply to my personal relationships.

While this book does not have the most beautiful of prose or the most well-constructed of worldbuilding, and therefore from a literary standpoint sadly will not go down as a classic, this book has relatable and heartwarming character arcs and it kept me absorbed from the first page until the last.

Four stars from me!