Judy's Review:
Americans have the best expression for it. ‘Life turns on a dime.’
The idea of a person’s destiny pivoting in an instant and shooting off in a completely new and different direction is an ancient one. Chance meetings; trivial misunderstandings; seemingly inconsequential decisions with huge consequence – it’s the stuff of Greek and Roman plays; Shakespeare to Sliding Doors.
Jojo Moyes takes this concept and has a thoroughly enjoyable time with it. Nisha Cantor is her seriously wealthy, globetrotting wife who has it all – until the day the fount of her fortune, her millionaire husband, abruptly pulls the plug. He announces a divorce and cuts Nisha off.
Appalled, she is determined to regain control of her fate and fortune. But how? She doesn’t even have the shoes she was, only just now, standing in. And that’s really where our story starts…