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…

Richard's Review:

Sam doesn’t have much – a bit like Nisha these days. The difference is, Sam never did have a lot. She struggles with a complicated, grinding personal and work life: her family is, to put it bluntly, falling apart; her job is ridiculously demanding. Sam’s life hasn’t so much turned on a dime as stopped on one.

Until today. Today is Sam's (and Nisha’s) sliding doors moment – except it’s more of a bungled bags affair. Their gym bags get mixed up and Sam goes home with Nisha’s. When she opens it, she realises that for once it’s the world at HER feet – with an extremely nice pair of shoes to walk in, too.

Neither realises it quite yet, but Sam and Nisha’s lives have just become inextricably, fatefully, permanently tangled together. But for good or bad? Only time will tell. Huge fun.