The Other Life by Ellen Meister was a book I picked up back when it was originally published in February of this year. When I picked it up it was based purely on the gleaming reviews of other book bloggers, but once I had the book resting safely at home amidst the vastness of my bookshelves it got lost. Sad, I know. It’s just that the original cover doesn’t scream “Chick Lit” or even potentially magical realism plot it describes in the synopsis, so it sat. Well, it’s recently had a cover makeover and I’m now reconsidering my shelf abandonment of this fantastic sounding (and now looking) book.

You tell me. The hardback cover is on the left and the new paperback cover is on the right. Read the synopsis and then decide, which cover would you pick up first?

If you could return to the road not taken…would you?

Quinn Braverman has a perfect life, with a loving husband, an adorable son, and another baby on the way.

Quinn also has an ominous secret: she knows that another version of her life exists…one in which she made totally different life choices. But she’s never been tempted to switch lives-until a shocking turn of events pushes her to cross over, and she discovers the one person she thought she’d lost forever: Her mother.

But Quinn can’t have both lives. Soon, she must decide which she really wants-the one she has…or the other life…

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