The Midnight Library: A Novel Hardcover – September 29, 2020 by Matt Haig

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Author: Haig Matt

Brand: Viking

Color: Navy

Edition: 1st Edition

Package Dimensions: 31x224x410

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 29-09-2020

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The New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year “A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits.”—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.
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 blockbuster 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.
Amazon.com Review
When the death of her cat proves the final straw, Nora decides to check out on life, and finds herself at the Midnight Library. “Even death was something Nora couldn’t do properly, it seemed.” But each book at this library tells the story of a life she could have had. Part
It’s a Wonderful Life, part
Oona Out of Order, this charming, funny, inventive novel is about regret, the choices we make, and taking the bitter with the sweet.
—Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review
Review
An instant New York Times bestsellerWinner of the Goodreads Choice Award for FictionA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!One of the LibraryReads 2020 Voter FavoritesIndependent (London) One of Ten Best Books of the YearIncluded in best-of-year and year-end roundups by The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, New York Public Library, Amazon, Boston Globe, PureWow, St. Louis Public Radio, She Reads, Lit Hub, The Mary Sue, and more

“Whimsical.”
—Washington Post, named one of the 15 Feel-Good Books Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits

“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“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

“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

“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“Thanks to the storytelling chops of writer Matt Haig, The Midnight Library is an engaging read, full of gentle insights and soothing wisdom… This is a book about shedding regret by gaining perspective. It’s full of quirky plot lines, with glimpses of opportunities and potential in unexpected places and people.
” —Psychology Today“A charming book.” —Dolly Parton, award-winning singer-songwriter

“Although I don’t read fiction as much as I used to—because I’m always writing fiction—during these sad and difficult days in 2020 I broke that rule because I needed to ­escape into other peop