Imagine on the way to the afterlife there was a huge library lined with all the lives you could have lived. Book after book filled with the ways that could have been yours.

Imagine on the way to the afterlife there was a huge library lined with all the lives you could have lived. Book after book filled with the ways that could have been yours.

This is where Nora Seed finds herself after she decided to take her own life out of sheer desperation. In this place, where the clock hands always tick to midnight, Nora suddenly has the opportunity to find out what would have happened if she had made a different decision. Each book in the Midnight Library takes her to another life, another world to navigate. But can you find happiness in another life knowing it's not yours?

Matt Haig has written an enchanting novel about how all the decisions we regret make us who we are. A hymn to life - also to that which pinches us, which makes us despair and which is the only thing that belongs to us.