How different would your life be if you chose differently?

As many of us have often wondered at some point in our life: what would have happened if I had made a different choice?

In Laura Barnett's novel "Versions of Us", she tackles that question head on and gives us the answers: a chance meeting in Cambridge, UK in the 1950s is followed by three different versions of Eva and Jim.

Hooked from the very beginning, "Versions of Us" is a completely unique approach to a love story and what I loved most was Barnett's way of illustrating how regardless of the path we take, some things in life are completely inevitable.

Barnett's unique style does present some challenges to readers though. The story does not take you from beginning to end of one version and then to the next complete version. Each chapter is an installment of one of the versions; the sequence that Barnett follows is: version 1, version 2, version 3, time jump, version 1, version 2, version 3, time jump, etc. This style of writing is not for everyone. While the story is beautifully written and a very raw and authentic look at life and the choices we make along the way, it is a very challenging read because it requires so much of the reader's attention and recollection as to what the history of the version you're about to embark on.