Reseña del libro "The House with Seven Doors (The Roads Not Taken) (en Inglés)"
What if you could step into the lives you might have lived? At forty-six, Cora Ellison is beginning to wonder whether she took the wrong road. Her marriage is over. Her mother is dead. The artistic life she once imagined has narrowed into a lock-up studio where she makes the same bowls, week after week, for people she will never meet. Then, while clearing her mother's flat, Cora discovers a letter that was hidden from her for eleven years. It leads her to Thistlemarsh, an old house on the coast that has been waiting for an heir. Inside is a corridor that should not exist. And seven doors. Six are warm to the touch. Behind each lies a different life Cora might have lived. A love she let go. The career she never pursued. The family she never had. The road she might have taken if, at one crucial moment, she had chosen differently. For the first time, Cora can stop wondering. She can see. She can enter. She can live the lives she lost. But every door has a price. The longer Cora remains inside the lives she never chose, the more the house begins to take from the one she actually lived. Small memories disappear first. A face. A voice. A day she thought she would remember forever. And still there are more doors. Because what if the next life is the right one? What if somewhere in that impossible corridor is the version of herself who finally got everything right? And what waits behind the seventh door, the only one that is cold? The House With Seven Doors is a haunting, deeply human novel about regret, love, grief, memory, and the endless temptation to imagine that happiness was waiting on another road. For anyone who has ever wondered What if?, Julian Vale's atmospheric philosophical novel asks a quieter, more dangerous question: How much of the life you have would you sacrifice for the chance to live the one you missed?
