The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, 2020
A library between life and death, where every book on the shelf is one of the lives Nora could have chosen and didn't.
Matt Haig
Haig's memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, about depression and recovery, made him a public advocate for mental health; The Midnight Library took its idea of parallel lives partly from that territory.
Feels like love, hope and memory.
The gap between a mother's corrections and a stranger's kindness.
It was hard not to compare Mrs Elm to her mother, who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction. For instance, when she was a baby her mother had been so worried Nora’s left ear stuck out more than her right that she’d used sticky tape to address the situation, then disguised it beneath a woollen bonnet. Books by Matt Haig
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