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From the author of How to Stop Time and The Humans comes this poignant, unique novel about regret, hope and forgiveness - and a library that houses second chances.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781786892737
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 222 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives - Sunday Times
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 - Guardian
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 - The Times
A brilliant premise and great fun to have so many stories within one book - Daily Mail
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 - New York Times
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