The Midnight Library Lesson Plan

Who is Molly? What does she teach Nora? Why does this make Nora sad?

Molly is Nora and Ash's daughter in the life where she accepted his coffee date offer. In this life, Nora became a professor of philosophy at Cambridge and married Ash. It's the most perfect life she's tried on so far. Molly's resilience gives Nora more confidence in herself - if this little human who had come from her had so much of this hidden strength in her, perhaps Nora does as well. Nora's relationship with Molly helps her to see that the absence of love in her root life is what was making her feel so lost. This thought makes Nora sad because although she has so much love in this life, she feels...