About the Author

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet and seven highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. The Midnight Library was an instant bestseller and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick and was winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction 2020. It has become a worldwide phenomenon and multi-million copy bestseller. The audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan.

Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which has been made into a feature film with an all-star cast. He has sold more than three million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over fifty 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 * *