An incredibly original creative foray for the novel. Far more complex than a write your own adventure. I like the influence of choice from the different starting points to the views criss crossing between the 1400s and the 2012s. A book that makes you reflect and re examine what you believe and why you formed that view. The stories were both engaging and in their moments. The history of a 1400 fresco painter on commission who believed he should have been paid more was contemporary. The grief in the young girl from today was grief no different to grief from the 1400s. How to be both is the lesson in the ned, the ned to be both is ever there.