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Matt Haig born on July 3, year 1975 is an English author and journalist. He has written fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre.

Haig was born on July 3, year 1975 in Sheffield. He then studied English and history at the University of Hull.

Haig is an author of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. His non-fiction book Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller in the Sunday Times and was in the UK top 10 for 46 weeks. His best-selling children’s novel Santa and I is currently being made into a movie, produced by Studio Canal and Blueprint Pictures.

His novels are often dark and whimsical, dealing with family life. The Last Family in England retells the first part of Shakespeare’s Henry IV with the protagonists as dogs. His second novel, Dead Fathers Club, is based on Hamlet and tells the story of an introspective 11-year-old boy who comes to terms with the recent death of his father and the appearance of his father’s ghost.

His third adult novel, The Possession of Mr Cave, is about an obsessive father desperate to protect his teenage daughter. His children’s novel Shadow Forest is a fantasy that begins with the gruesome deaths of the protagonists’ parents. It won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize in year 2007. The sequel Runaway Troll followed in year 2008.

Haig’s vampire novel The Radleys was published in year 2011. In year 2013 he published The Humans. It is the story of an alien who assumes the identity of a university professor whose work in mathematics threatens the stability of the planet, who also has to deal with the domestic life that accompanies his assignment.

In year 2017, Haig published How to Stop Time, a novel about a man who appears to be 40 years old but has actually lived more than 400 years and has met Shakespeare, Captain Cook and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In an interview with The Guardian, Haig revealed that StudioCanal movies opted for the book and that Benedict Cumberbatch “starred” in the film adaptation.

Reasons to Stay Alive won the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards in year 2016 and How to Stop Time was nominated in year 2017. In August year 2018, he wrote the lyrics for English singer-songwriter Andy Burrows’ music album, the title of which was derived from the book Haig Reasons to Stay Alive.

In year 2020, Matt Haig published his novel The Midnight Library, about a young woman named Nora Seed who is unhappy with her life choices. During the night, she attempts suicide, but ends up in a library run by her school librarian, Mrs. Elm. The library is between life and death with millions of books full of stories of her life if she had made some decisions differently. In this library she tries to find the life in which she is happiest. It was shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2021 Fiction Book of the Year. The Midnight Library was adapted for radio and broadcast in ten episodes on BBC Radio 4 in December year 2020.

In year 2021, Haig appeared on Storybound (Podcast), accompanied by an original score by Robert Wynia.

Haig’s latest book, The Comfort Book, was published on July 1, year 2021.

Haig is married to Andrea Semple; They have two children and a dog. The family lives in Brighton, Sussex. The couple homeschool their children. Haig identifies as an atheist.

Some of Haig’s work, particularly some of his non-fiction, is inspired by the nervous breakdown he suffered when he was 24 years old. He still suffers from occasional anxiety attacks.

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When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she gets a chance to set things right. Until now, her life has been filled with misery and regret. She feels that she has let everyone down, including herself, but things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library allow Nora to live as if she did otherwise. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo any of her regrets as she tries to find her perfect life. But things aren’t always as she imagined, and soon her decisions put the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the question: What is the best way to live?

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I’ll start by saying that I LOVE the book. And I think everyone MUST read it!
More of a philosophical reading about life and death and the opportunities and possibilities that we could have. What if we could live and experience a different life if we had chosen something different?

Let’s just say that if I hadn’t started writing and publishing a book, I wouldn’t be a writer. If I had chosen medicine instead of computer science, I would have become a doctor by now. If I hadn’t gotten married, I wouldn’t be a mother either. So many lives and infinite possibilities based on your past actions. How would it feel if we had our own regret book to see what and where we went wrong?

The Midnight Library is about the life of Nora Seed, who has lost all hope in life. She sees nothing good in life as she has lost her job, her cat and has no parents to share her pain. She is mad at her brother and broke up with her boyfriend. Instead, she chooses an easy path: taking her own life.
“Between life and death there is a library, and in that library the shelves are endless.

Each book offers the opportunity to taste a different life that you could have lived. To see what it would be like if you had made different decisions… Would you have done anything differently if you had had the opportunity to undo your regrets?”

On her journey from life to death, she wakes up in a library that accumulates hundreds and thousands of books. She meets the librarian at her school, Mrs. Elm, who she trusted the most during her childhood. Nora tells Mrs. Elm that she deliberately tried to kill herself and that there is no point in continuing. Mrs. Elm explains to Nora how the library works by choosing the first book in the library. Nora pulls out the book, too heavy to carry, where she reviews all of her regrets.

She rejected her boyfriend’s proposal because she had to take care of her mother. She never followed her swimming career, although she was very good at it. She didn’t become a songwriter and singer because she was afraid to face the crowd. She never continued her philosophy studies or even went out for coffee when her neighbor asked her to. All of her regrets were right in front of her. And Nora had the opportunity to live all these possible lives.

“A man was like a city. He couldn’t be put off by some less than desirable parts of the whole. There may be corners you don’t like, some back streets and seedy suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”

She first chooses the book of what her life would have been like if she had said yes to her boyfriend and she had followed her dream of opening a pub in the country. She in this life she is married and yet the man has made her unhappy with an affair.

Once Nora realizes and regrets it, she returns to the Midnight Library. Another Life is about Nora following the swim race. She participated in the Olympics. She is very successful where her father lives and she gets another chance to talk to him. But she is still not happy and she is not fulfilled.

She chooses another book where she is a singer in a very successful band but she has no parents and her life is no longer personal. Ella another Life she becomes a glaciologist, where she nearly risks her life by facing off against a polar bear. In another life she is married to a man with a large vineyard and a very successful business. In one life she has everything but her brother is dead.

In each of her lives she did not achieve everything and lost something very precious to her.
When we all think about our lives, we cannot have pure happiness. We will have happy moments, but we will also have sad moments. It depends on how you see life. You can see the darkness in everything or you can choose to see the good. It’s all in our heads.
“In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of life.”

The premise is quite interesting: there is an ethereal library that exists between life and death. You can choose any book from the shelves and each book contains an alternate life. Each life is what would have happened if you changed a single decision that you regret. Interesting right?

As if you could see what would have happened if you had gone on that coffee date or gotten that master’s degree or continued to play the piano. In the middle of each new life, if the grasshopper is disappointed, it lands back in the library to try again. Eventually, you will find a life that is the best possible outcome, or your “root life” will lead to death.

Unfortunately, the premise unfolds in the most expected way. Nora Seed reverses her regrets and realizes that even the best alternate universes contain uncertainties, pain, sadness, and disappointment. Even when she ends up with her dream job and a big family, she can’t stay to play in this life. Why? Well, because it’s not really “her”. Then she, surprise, surprise, wakes up at the end of her suicide attempt with a renewed appreciation for the life she once had and longing to leave it.

If she has read the first 30-40 pages of this book, she can probably mentally write the rest. It’s apparently an opportunity to explore infinite universes, so why take the most predictable course of action? Getting to the point where the beauty of the life we ​​have around us must be recognized? She just writes a greeting card to get the message across; a whole book is unnecessary.

Also, it seems that the author either doesn’t get the idea of ​​infinite options or chooses not to really explore them. In all of her lives, the most extraordinarily unique is granted an exploratory phrase: “In one life she ate only toast” (212). All other lives are just variations on themes like work, friends, romantic partners, and family. Of the endless possibilities to explore, nothing unexpected happens. It’s annoying how the author keeps throwing ideas at his readers that anything could happen without keeping the promise.

The writing style is difficult to rate. She just sits there. Sentence by sentence the predictable story slowly advances. It is utilitarian prose that lacks poetry and depth, seemingly at odds with a book that attempts to explore the inner caverns of a deeply depressed person.

The author constantly quotes philosophers, but she seems to have no real interest in seriously engaging with philosophical ideas. It’s a novel in form, but a corny self-help book in content. This novel is the germ of an interesting idea that was never pursued and died underground. Unhappy.

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