they are ivy and abe, and in elizabeth enfield's novel, each of these stories reveals a part of theircter as if all of us aren'tjust who we are here and now, but are always carrying with us the weight of the oldest question of all — what if? welcome. in this book, we are reminded that life and your fate can change in the blink of an eye. do you think of that as being reassuring or alarming? i think it's both, but i think it's one of those tantalising thoughts that people have a lot, that sort of "what if i'd done this" and "what if i'd done that," and i think the thought is very alarming, especially if you've based your whole life or you've lived your whole life dependent on one route you've gone down. but i actually think the exploration of it, which i've tried to do in the book, is less alarming because i think that life... there are a lot of themes to the book, notjust the issue of the relationship between the two people, but i think life has a habit of turning out as it's going to turn out, and those paths not taken have a sort of way of rejoining almost, so that you can look back

they are ivy and abe, and in elizabeth enfield's novel, each of these stories reveals a part of their. do you think of that as being reassuring or alarming? i think it's both but i think it's one of those tantalising thoughts that people have a lot, that sort of "what if i'd done this" and "what if i'd done that," and i think the thought is very alarming, especially if you've based your whole life or you've lived your whole life dependent on one route you've gone down. but i actually think the exploration of it, which i've tried to do in the book, is less alarming because i think that life... there are a lot of themes to the book, notjust the issue of the relationship between the two people, but i think life has a habit of turning out as it's going to turn out, and those paths not taken have a sort of way of rejoining almost, so that you can look back and think, "if i hadn't done, that my life might have been very different," but very often it's not. it's similar. that is the reassuring answer, but what's interesting about ivy and abe of course — the couple we follow and then go backw

they are ivy and abe, and in elizabeth enfield's novel, each of these stories reveals a part of theirif all of us aren'tjust who we are here and now, but are always carrying with us the weight of the oldest question of all — what if? welcome. in this book, we are reminded that life and your fate can change in the blink of an eye. do you think of that as being reassuring or alarming?