other books by the author of the midnight library

To see how things would be different if you have made other choices. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. And within that library, the shelves go on forever. “Between life and death there is a library. It is interesting how Nora’s choice of a book leads her to many parallel lives, and in each, she could have lived a different life. Elm, who guides her through the library and explains all about the books stacked in there.

Here she meets her Elementary School librarian, Mrs. When she wakes up, she is surprised to find herself in a library, The Midnight Library, which is not a regular library, but a space between life and death. One day, when one after the other unpleasant incidents keep happening, she feels it’s the worst day of her life and decides to end her life. She feels it is a monotonous and ordinary life where she is unwanted, unnoticed, and unaccomplished. Her life is not going in the perfect direction. Nora Seed, the main protagonist, is a single woman in her 30s. I loved the premise and the concept of a library where one could revisit their life. It is engrossing, insightful, and filled with brilliant observations about life.

Sometimes it is philosophical and reflective, pushing one to explore and introspect on their own thoughts. It is part sci-fi, with a dash of magical realism. 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.Set in Bedford, England, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is a fascinating book mixing a variety of genres. 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.

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever.

Other books by the author of the midnight library