The Midnight Library
The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
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4,4 • 188 Bewertungen
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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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Haig (How to Stop Time) draws on quantum wave theory in this charming if sometimes laborious account of the many possible lives of a depressed woman. Nora, in her mid-30s and living in the small English town of Bedford, suffers from "situational depression" though, as she wryly observes, "It's just that I keep on having new... situations." After she gets fired from her job and her cat dies, she attempts suicide, only to wake up in a book-lined liminal zone, where she is guided by a librarian: "Between life and death there is a library... Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived." There, Nora discovers what would have happened had she not abandoned her promising swimming career, called off her engagement, or left the rock band she started with her brother. Each time an alternate life disappoints or doesn't feel quite right, Nora exits, reappearing in the library to continue browsing for the perfect story. While the formula grows repetitive, the set changes provide novelty, as Haig whisks Nora from Australian beaches to a South American rock concert tour to an Arctic encounter with a polar bear. Haig's agreeable narrative voice and imagination will reward readers who take this book off the shelf.
Kundenrezensionen
I really liked this book! 💓
At the start it was very confusing but the more you red the more easier it would get! A lot of people say it's boring, i think this book is not for everyone, if you like action maybe read another book. In my opinion it was amazing and i would any day red it again! -Isa💌
Fell in love with the story <3
I fell in love with the story, and it traveled with me during all the lifes of Nora, while I was trying to figured out my own. I felt so identified, trying the whole time to find better things in other lifes or thinking how the things could have been diferently done, just to realize at the end that the life Im right now is the one Im suposse to live, to learn what I have to learn in the right time. Amazing book 🩷
Eye-opening
I am only 14 years old, yet I still worry and regret a lot. I always struggle when having to make a descision, even when buying this book, I didn’t know whether to buy it or not, because I actually have to read more German literature… I am deeply scared of ending up like Nora, a depresses 35 year old with no real purpose, I mean, I still have my whole life ahead of me, but the choices I decide for now, will be affecting my later life. I want to know, study and experience everything. But sometimes that is simply impossible. I often think, that if I had grown up in a richer family, I would have had a happier and more fullfilling life, while they might be true, there is simply no way of knowing. Knowing that there is a life, where I am happier or richer or prettier or more organized, can’t stop me from not making MY life I am living now the happiest and most fulfilling life for me. While there is no way of knowing when to take a certain turn, I secretly and fullheartetly hope, that deep in my heart I’ll know what will lead to my ideal life.