The Midnight Library: A Novel

Product Description "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post A New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . 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 lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. 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. 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. 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? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. 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. Amazon.com Review When the death of her cat proves the final straw, Nora decides to check out on life, and finds herself at the Midnight Library. "Even death was something Nora couldn't do properly, it seemed." But each book at this library tells the story of a life she could have had. Part It’s a Wonderful Life, part Oona Out of Order, this charming, funny, inventive novel is about regret, the choices we make, and taking the bitter with the sweet. —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review Editors' pick: Part It’s a Wonderful Life, part Oona Out of Order, this charming, funny, inventive novel follows the world-weary Nora down the roads not taken (dozens of them!). With insights both simple and profound, The Midnight Library will coax readers to contemplate regret, the choices we make, and taking the bitter with the sweet."—Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor Review An instant New York Times bestsellerWinner of the Goodreads Choice Award for FictionA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!One of the LibraryReads 2020 Voter FavoritesIncluded in best-of-year and year-end roundups by The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, New York Public Library, Amazon, Boston Globe, PureWow, St. Louis Public Radio, She Reads, Lit Hub, The Mary Sue, and more “Whimsical.”  —Washington Post, named one of the 15 Feel-Good Books Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits "An absorbing but comfortable read...a vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, might be exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling times.” — The New York Times“Charming...a celebration of the ordinary: ordinary revelations, ordinary people, and the infinity of worlds seeded in ordinary choices.”  —The Guardian“A brilliant premise and great fun.” —Daily Mail    "I can't describe how much his work means to me. So necessary...[Matt Haig is] the king of empathy."  —Jameela Jamil, actor and host of  I Weigh with Jameela Jamil “A beautiful fable, an  It’s a Wonderful Life for the modern age – impossibly timely when we are all stuck in a world we wish could be different.” —Jodi Picoult, author of  My Sister's Keeper “This brainy, captivating pleasure read feels like what you might get if TV’s  The  Good Place collided with  Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” — People“Thanks to the storytelling chops of w