And while it was certainly a creative choice to begin the book with Nora’s fateful decision, it is here that the most crucial weakness of Haig’s writing reveals itself - namely, his failure to develop characters that are multidimensional and relatable.įor starters, Nora’s fall from grace - which Haig spends the entire book dissecting and rehashing - is too fantastic to be of any use to the average reader.

The book begins with what amounts to a cursory overview of the life of Nora Seed and of everything underlying the feelings that drive her to suicide. While initially promising an interesting mix of casual writing with the question of post-mortem existence, “The Midnight Library” ultimately fails to deliver, falling short of the intriguing novel it could have been. Unfortunately, the book is as clichéd as it sounds. 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,” best-selling British author Matt Haig’s latest book, tells the story of a woman in her thirties who, after suffering an overwhelming attack of hopelessness and despair, embarks on a journey to rediscover the meaning of life. 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.

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