The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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In Bedford, things start to go wrong for Nora Seed.

Nora Seed lives quietly with her cat in Bedford. One evening things begin to go wrong - and they don’t improve the following day.

Between life and death there is a library - The Midnight Library.

Nora Seed finds herself there and discovers that each book in the Midnight Library is an opportunity - to explore the lives she might now lead if she had acted differently, and to undo her regrets (of which she has many). 

None of these lives is what she imagined.

As the librarian in The Midnight Library tells her, ‘Sometimes the only way to learn is to live.’ But what is the best way for Nora to live?

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Nora Seed lives quietly with her cat in Bedford. One evening things begin to go wrong - and they don’t improve the following day.

Matt Haig is the bestselling author of Reasons To Stay Alive and Notes On A Nervous Planet. An award-winning writer of books for children and young adults, he has written seven novels for adults. The Midnight Library was published in July 2017.

Writer: Matt Haig
Reader: Bryony Hannah
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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Between life and death there is a library - The Midnight Library.

Between life and death there is a library - The Midnight Library. Nora finds herself there and discovers that each book tells the story of a different life she could be leading.

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