Who would you be, if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are now?
Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully.
But when the plane she’s on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago – when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved.
Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to – but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain.
As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she’s never truly asked: What does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us?
Two possible futures. One impossible choice.
Jodi Picoult is the author of twenty five internationally bestselling novels, including MY SISTER’S KEEPER, HOUSE RULES and SMALL GREAT THINGS, and has also co-written two YA books with her daughter Samantha van Leer, BETWEEN THE LINES and OFF THE PAGE. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.
Her most recent adult novel, A SPARK OF LIGHT first published in the UK on 30th October 2018, and was a #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller.
Follow Jodi Picoult on Twitter @JodiPicoult and find out more at www.jodipicoult.co.uk or on Facebook/JodiPicoultUK.
I love Jodi Picoult’s books and so read this one without knowing any details, I got a few pages in and felt it wasn’t like her normal books and had to check I was reading the right thing!
Egyptology isn’t something I am overly interested in and wouldn’t have been my first choice for the plot, added to that Egyptian history and some physics and its no wonder that I found the beginning of the book quite difficult to get into and it felt like quite a long read for me.
However, despite it not really being ‘my thing’ I found myself engrossed in the book and wanting to get back to it to read more as soon as I could. Dawn is a death doula, which seems a fascinating and beautiful job, she spends her life making the final transition easier for people and their loved ones. When her plane crashes and she is one of 36 survivors she is asked where she wants to fly and has to decide whether to return home to Boston or to return to Egypt where she left unfinished business fifteen years earlier.
This is a complicated, detailed and interesting story of love, of life and of death. This is of the changes we made due to life circumstances and of love that stands the test of time; of compassion and love for others.
This is multilayer storytelling at its best but at no point is it confusing. The characters are strong and detailed, the plot is a great one and I have learnt a lot about Egyptology!
Picoult is definitely a master storyteller and not afraid to go to some dark places, to complicated thoughts, situations and relationships and her books are all the better for it.
Definitely a great read, emotionally satisfying and insightful, this is really well written and I would highly recommend it… even if you aren’t interested in Egyptology or Physics!
Thanks to the Author, Publisher and Netgalley for an Advanced Review Copy (ARC) in exchange for an honest review.
| Title | The Book fo Two Ways |
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| Series | N/A |
| Format | eARC |
| Page Count | 433 Pages |
| Genre | Women’s Biographies |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Release Date | 20th October 2020 |
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