Everything is just going so wrong for her. Nora Seed is a thirty-something woman who feels like giving up on life. Find him at How long is it?Ģ88 pages in my hardback edition. If you’re not following him on social media, you’re missing out. The brilliant Matt Haig, author of Notes on a Nervous Planet, which I definitely must read at some point. It is, of course, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Ya know one of those books that you think about all day until you get to read it again? Yep, this is one of those. One of my other resolutions for this year is to read 30 books – I read 26 last year & I fancied a bit of a challenge – and my very first book of 2021 was one that I absolutely whizzed through. 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.One of my resolutions this year is to keep this blog updated as much as possible, so I hope this is the start of what turns out to be some more regular posts coming your way. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. 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?

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. 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. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”Ī 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. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever.

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