What if we could go back and change the pivotal moments of our lives?
Marco is fifty and carries a subtle but persistent feeling: that somewhere along the way, something took a wrong turn. An unexpected encounter with Valeria, his first great love, reopens wounds that never truly healed. Driven by a restlessness he can no longer silence, he travels to the island of Corfu, where a mysterious man named Andy offers him the impossible - the chance to relive four crucial moments from his past.
But does it truly make sense to change the past? Or is there a deeper kind of acceptance, in which every mistake, every fracture, every renunciation becomes part of a larger design?
The Island of What Could Have Been is an intense and moving novel that weaves together memory and imagination, regret and gratitude. A journey through the lives we could have lived - and the one which, with all its imperfections, finally makes us whole.
For readers who loved Sliding Doors, Mr. Nobody, or Wings of Desire.