The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON
READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021
WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION

'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent

Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

Matt Haig writes both fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, which has been a number one Sunday Times bestseller and a number one New York Times bestseller. He has also written a number of children's books including A Boy Called Christmas, which became a major feature film, and most recently the non-fiction book for adults, The Comfort Book.

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A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives
Sunday Times

A beautiful fable, an It's a Wonderful Life for the modern age - impossibly timely when we are all stuck in a world we wish could be different
JODI PICOULT

A celebration of life's possibilities . . . A beautiful concept . . . Charming
Guardian

A rare and welcome light of hope and wisdom in the darkness
JOANNE HARRIS

A wonderful story . . . Such a beautiful book to get lost in
Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2

I can't describe how much his work means to me. So necessary . . . The king of empathy
JAMEELA JAMIL

Warm and humorous
The Times

A brilliant premise and great fun to have so many stories within one book
Daily Mail

Amazing and utterly beautiful, The Midnight Library is everything you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt Haig
JOANNA CANNON

Absorbing . . . A vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, might be exactly what's wanted in these troubled and troubling times
New York Times