The Midnight Library

Matt Haig, Ashutosh Garg

  • First published 2020
  • 304 pages
  • English
On the night Nora Seed decides she can no longer bear her own life, she wakes up in a library hushed between life and death. Every regret crowds in on her: the swimming career she abandoned, the band she walked away from with her brother, the wedding she cancelled two days before, the lonely job in a music shop and the cat now gone. The librarian from her childhood, Mrs. Elm, hands her the chance to undo them, book by book, living each other life she might have had as if it were her own. Some feel dazzling, some feel strange and hollow. She must learn which life is truly hers before the midnight hour fades.
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Uplifting what-if about regrets and living, though many find it preachy and simplistic.

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HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
ISBN
9781443474948
Language
English
Original edition Originally published in 2020 · English · Canongate Books Ltd

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