The paths of nineteen-year-old students Jim and Eva first cross in 1958. He goes to class, she rides past on a bicycle. If it weren't for a nail that accidentally ended up on the road and punctured her tire... Laura Barnett offers the reader three versions of what could happen to Eve and Jim. Together with the heroes, we will make three different journeys of a lifetime, moving from Cambridge in the fifties to modern London, visiting New York and Cornwall, living in Paris, Rome and Los Angeles. Before our eyes, Eva and Jim will grow up, struggle with a midlife crisis, get married and give away children, grow old, rejoice at successes and grieve over failures. In this book they will live not one, but three very different lives. “Three Versions of Us” is a romantic parable about how there are always several paths open to every person, and it’s up to us which one to choose.