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The Midnight Library

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
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*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig's new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is out now*

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?

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Critic Reviews

"A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives"
"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"
"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"
"A brilliant premise and great fun to have so many stories within one book"
"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"
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Having experienced depression this book has served both as a masterpiece of fiction but also self help. It is exquisitely written too. No other book of 2020 has come close to it for me. I listened over two days whereas usually an audiobook might take weeks. I just couldn’t stop listening.

My favourite book of 2020

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Such an unusual story.
I loved how different it was and it made me think about the other lives I could of had. I highly recommend

I can’t stop thinking about this story

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Not sure what the fuss is about. Average, slightly long-winded story. I was eager for it to end.

Fell flat

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TRIGGER WARNING: This book starts off with suicide. It does not do it lightly, but shows a woman being swallowed by depression, and the extreme loneliness and worthlessness that it entails.
because of that theme, it shows the importance of little things you do for others, and that others do for you. It shows through the story that the same life can be simultaneously horrendous, and beautiful, depending on your perspective. So treat people well.

This book is beautiful. it explores what it would be like to undo regrets, when you feel like you're like is nothing but regrets, going so far as to question if you truly know what your regrets are. It is beautiful to watch a 'terminally broken' person undergo self restoration by experiencing the lives she could have, and wished she had, had, and realising the flaws in them and the beauty in her own.

the power of perspective: beauty and despair

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Thoroughly enjoyable yarn, food for thought! parallel universes galore, good spin on string theory.

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