A review by nannyf
The Other Us by Fiona Harper

4.0

As a fan of time travel and alternate reality type movies/TV programmes, I was really looking forward to this book. Sliding Doors and When Peggy Sue Got Married were some of my go to movies years ago so I was interested to see how the author brought her story across.

I found myself instantly drawn into the story. Maggie is at a time in her life where she feels she should have made better choices when she was younger. She didn't dream that she would be thrown back there overnight in an attempt to try and make those choices again.

Ask yourself this, is there a time in your life where you know you made a wrong choice? Would you really want to go back and change something to try and make the eventual outcome different? I know I would change more than one thing in my past. But what if by changing something you didn't actually make it better? What if the choices you make, regardless of the order you make them in, still point toward the same final outcome? Would you still want to change things then?

This story answers all of those questions and more. I loved the fact that Maggie finds herself jumping back and forth between time zones, having to figure out what has gone on while she has been 'absent'. It means that we, the reader, get to see how each time she finds her way back to the different realities she is living things have changed. Or have they?

This is a well written story which I was instantly drawn into. I recommend this to fans of the films I mentioned, and those who like stories of second chances.