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A woman who attempts suicide finds herself in a library between life and death, where every book shows a life she could have lived.
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The Names
In 1987 Cora goes to register her newborn son: her violent husband wants him named Gordon, after himself, and her nine-year-old daughter likes Bear, and the novel follows the three different lives that unfold from each name.
The Humans
An alien sent to Earth to stop a Cambridge mathematician's breakthrough from reaching anyone takes over the man's body, and finds himself inconveniently moved by the man's family and by peanut butter sandwiches.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man with bipolar disorder channels all his manic energy into one goal: reuniting with his ex-wife, fuelled by football and unearned optimism.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie, an eighty-three-year-old maintenance man at a seaside amusement park, dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and wakes in an afterlife where five people from his life, some of them strangers, explain what it meant.
Pure Colour
In a world presented as God's first draft, Mira studies art criticism, falls for a woman named Annie, and after her father dies finds that her spirit has passed into a leaf, alongside his.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker with a scarred face and a rigid routine begins to come out of herself after she and a scruffy IT guy help an old man who collapses in the street.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a cramped basement café in Tokyo, one particular seat lets a customer travel back in time, as long as they keep to the rules and return before their coffee goes cold; four visitors take the chance to see someone again.
Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes, sixteen and caught in spirals of obsessive thought, is talked by her best friend into hunting for a missing Indianapolis billionaire, whose son she once knew, for the hundred-thousand-dollar reward.
The Correspondent
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies who is losing her sight, has written letters all her life, to her brother, her friends, authors she admires and people she disagrees with, and through them an old grief comes to the surface.
Theo of Golden
An elderly stranger named Theo arrives in the town of Golden, buys the pencil portraits of local people hanging in a coffee shop and gives each one to its subject, and his quiet encounters change a whole community.