If Sylvie Had Nine Lives

By (author) Leona Theis
Categories: Fiction: general and literary, Fiction and Related items
Publisher: Freehand Books
Paperback : 9781988298719, September 2020

Description

Have you ever looked back and wondered, What if…?
Meet Sylvie—funny, sly, sensual, and flawed. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than one life. Is there a right path and a wrong path, or does each possibility hold its share of pleasure and pain?

Reviews

"If Sylvie Had Nine Lives is a remarkable book, a palimpsest of different versions of a life that gives us a haunting, thrilling glimpse of the slender choices our lives hang by and the tangled threads that make even the simplest of them infinite mysteries." NINO RICCI

"Sylvie, the engaging heart of this innovative novel-in-stories, is a woman who truly contains multitudes. With these tales of rash decisions, romance, mishaps and mistakes, Leona Theis delves deeply into the layers that make up a life, many times over. Readers will be surprised and entertained as they get to know a new Sylvie in each chapter, every one a gem." JULIE PAUL

"A sharp and vibrant novel that delves with humour and humanity into the brimming possibilities of a flawed but appealing heroine. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives is a vivid exploration of the unexpected choices and chances that can make up a life—and a self." SALEEMA NAWAZ