The Book Reporter and The Arts Desk raved about it. īooklist and BookPage gave the book a starred review. Good Morning America selected it as a Book Club Pick. The Midnight Library was named a bestseller by The New York Times bestseller, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. She also sees herself as a glaciologist doing research in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic – a very different life from the one she tries to escape, but not necessarily a better choice. For example, in one possible life she tries to reunite with her boyfriend and finds herself married to him, but it isn't the way as she expected. In this library, she then tries to find the life in which she's the most content.
The library is situated between life and death with millions of books filled with stories of her life had she made some different decisions. During the night, she tries to kill herself but ends up in a library managed by her school librarian, Mrs.
The book's protagonist is a young woman named Nora Seed who is unhappy with her choices in life. The novel follows a 35 year old British woman unhappy in her dead-end life who is given the opportunity to experience lives she might have had if she had made different choices. It was abridged and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over ten episodes in December 2020. 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.The Midnight Library is a fantasy novel by Matt Haig, published on 13 August 2020 by Canongate Books. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster 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. The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits." -The Washington Post Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
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