The Midnight Library
The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
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4.3 • 179 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
*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?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Ever since his debut, The Last Family in England, featured a Labrador as a narrator, Matt Haig has displayed an incisive gift for using the supernatural to explore our everyday behaviour. Here, he takes us through the sliding doors of The Midnight Library. In this purgatory filled with books, Nora, a disillusioned thirtysomething on the edge of death, is given the chance to sample her alternative life stories and discover what might have been if she’d made some decisions differently. Taking the troubled, likeable Nora through her parallel realities, and serving up plenty of page-turning drama and warm wit along the way, Haig unpacks the true nature of regret and offers optimistic reminders why, even in our darkest hours, life can be worth holding on to.
Customer Reviews
Page turner
Enjoyed this book a real page turner, some parts dragged on a bit - but the main character swept me away and planted me right next to her. I understood her feelings right from the start, loved this book.
A beautiful reminder…
Life is full of possibility. All we need to do is be reminded of how to see it. And how to plant a forest within us.
A must-read for anyone who hopes to realise that life is not to be understood, but to be lived.
An interesting concept badly let down by appalling grammar and chaotic punctuation.
You know a book is badly written when you are constantly rewriting sentences in your head instead of being lost in the story. Good editing would have produced a better book, but as it stands, this book is badly written.