“She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.”Īnd these messages have the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Or embroidered on a pillow - pick your poison. I liked this book until it suddenly decided to moonlight as a self-help manual, replete with messages that would look great and profound on an Instagram post next to a well-posed cup of coffee with those foam pictures on top. “She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.” And these messages have the subtlety of a sledgehammer. 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.more
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. 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? 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. 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. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?Ī dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever.
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