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The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

  We all have moments in our lives that we know we are at a fork in the road and the choice of direction we take will shape the person we then become.  Sometimes the road we chose gets tough and then we might start to wonder 'What if...?' and that is the premise for this book. I really enjoyed it as it is set in America in the early 1960s, right about the time of the Cuban missile crisis and the era of J F Kennedy, and everything from the clothes to the way of life is exactly as I remember it.  The story centres on a young single woman called Kitty who works with her best friend running a modest bookshop, and all seems right in her world until she starts to have the strangest dreams.  Every time she goes to sleep she finds herself living a completely different lifestyle as a married woman living in a smart suburban house with her husband and three children. At first, she enjoys the dreams, although she walks through her new found world as a stranger and at first does...