When Grace Winters, a retired math teacher from England, inherits a house on Ibiza from an old colleague she hadn’t seen in decades, she embarks on a new adventure.  Following a letter left for her by her old friend, her worldview, and life, are changed forever, helping to ease her guilt over the life she has lived and the so-called mistakes she made along the way.

The Life Impossible, Matt Haig’s follow-up to his 2020 smash The Midnight Library, follows a similar theme.  Instead of looking at the regrets of the roads not taken, this time he tackles letting the guilt of the things we did do shut down our ability to enjoy life.  I’ve never taken a look at his backlog of works, so I may have to that one of these days.