Remember that move, Sliding Doors, where one moment in time, one decision, sent Helen's life in two completely different directions?

That is the premise of Maybe In Another Life, and I did not want to put it down once I started.

Kismet, fate, destiny - do you believe in it? Do you believe in the role it plays in your life?

Hannah's has been a bit adrift since finishing high school, and when one bad decision has her heading back to her home town of LA, things will never be the same again.

The decision one night - to stay at a club or to leave - sends her life on such difference courses. And this is where the story gets interesting.

It has also made me think - how different would my life be if I made those simple decisions? Stay or go? Turn left or right?

“When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”

From here on the story gets told of the two different Hannah's from the minute she makes that decision. I have never read a book in this format before, and did worry that it would be confusing to keep up with which storyline was which - but I needn't have!

It was interesting to see how much the lives of our characters still intersected during the course of the book. And the characters are not over the top. Their lives could be any us, any of our lives.

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”

I laughed, I cried, I got angry whilst reading Maybe In Another Life. I had never read any of Taylor Jenkins Reid's work before, but this has piqued my interest and I will be going back and check out her other books.