About the Author

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet, and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. He has also written many books for children and has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.

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Reviews

A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives
* * Sunday Times * *

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*

A celebration of life's possibilities . . . A beautiful concept . . . Charming
* * Guardian * *

A rare and welcome light of hope and wisdom in the darkness
*JOANNE HARRIS*

A wonderful story . . . Such a beautiful book to get lost in
*Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2*

I can't describe how much his work means to me. So necessary . . . The king of empathy
*JAMEELA JAMIL*

Warm and humorous
* * The Times * *

A brilliant premise and great fun to have so many stories within one book
* * Daily Mail * *

Amazing and utterly beautiful, The Midnight Library is everything you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt Haig
*JOANNA CANNON*

Absorbing . . . 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
* * New York Times * *