The Midnight Library

Matt Haig 2020

Devastation Rating

Lingering Melancholy
grief loss mental health literary fiction

Our Take

Nora Seed stands between life and death in a library of unchosen paths. Haig writes depression and regret with genuine warmth, and the novel's optimism is earned rather than assumed. What it understands about the way grief and regret feed each other — the life not lived as the wound that won't close — is more honest than most.

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