An e book bargain-No Two Persons

A Novel

by Erica Bauermeister

I love holding a new book, looking at the cover, wondering what is inside and whether I will be able to fully enter its world. It doesn’t always happen but, when it does, it always feels like magic. That feeling is what keeps me reading for pleasure I think.

In this novel Bauermeister shows just how deeply she understands the power of books. I think that the title No Two Persons signifies how we all see a given book through our own lens.

Alice is the first character whom readers meet. Her home life is not easy. She has escaped into books for many years and wants nothing more than to write. Through grief and hardship, she writes a novel titled Theo.

We all know that once a book is published it belongs to more than just the author. Here, Bauermeister shows how this one book impacts each character in the subsequent (somewhat interlinked) chapters. For example, meet the reader who finds the novel in a slush pile, meet an actor with a setback who discovers Alice’s book and finds that his career opens in a new way. Keep meeting new readers in all of the pages that follow.

I love the way that this novel reminds all of us of the power of imagination, reading and connection.

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this title. All opinions are my own

Pub date: 02 May 2023

304 pages

Literary fiction