Product Description
An instant New York Times bestseller A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
Review
Praise for The Midnight Library:
I can't describe how much his work means to me. So necessary...[Matt Haig is] the king of empathy
--Jameela Jamil, actor and host of
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"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, author of
My Sister's Keeper
An absorbing but comfortable read...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." --
The New York Times
"This brainy, captivating pleasure read feels like what you might get if TV's
The
Good Place collided with
Where'd You Go, Bernadette." --
People
"Clever, emotional and thought-inspiring." --Jenny Colgan, author of
The Bookshop on the Corner
"Amazing and utterly beautiful,
The Midnight Library is everything you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt Haig." --Joanna Cannon, author of
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"Nora's life is burdened by regrets. Then she stumbles on a library with books that enable her to test out the lives she could have led, including as a glaciologist, Olympic swimmer, rock star, and more. Her discoveries ultimately prove life-affirming in Matt Haig's dazzling fantasy." --
Christian Science Monitor
"Charming...a celebration of the ordinary: ordinary revelations, ordinary people, and the infinity of worlds seeded in ordinary choices."
--The Guardian
"A brilliant premise and great fun."
--Daily Mail\
"An uplifting, poignant novel about regret, hope and second chances" --David Nicholls, author of
One Day
"Would we really make better choices if we could step back in time? Matt Haig's thought-provoking, uplifting new book,
The Midnight Library discusses just that, exploring our relationship with regret and what really makes a perfect life." --
Harper's Bazaar (UK)
"British author Matt Haig is beloved in his home country, and he's a champion of mental health, which makes him a great person to follow on Twitter. He's best known for the novel
How to Stop Time, but he has a new novel just out on September 29 called
The Midnight Library, which sounds equally intriguing. In this library, Nora Seed finds endless books which contain different versions of the life she could have lived. This is a must-read for those of us given to endless what ifs." --
BookRiot
"Haig is o

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  • Genre Fiction
    • Time Travel