Matt Haig. The Midnight Library

What if our lives were completely different from the ones we’re living now?
Would they be better? We’ll never know.
The truth is — the life we have is precious. Let’s cherish it.

The world’s current #1 bestseller, Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library,” explores this very idea — the value of life itself. Between life and death, there is a library. Nora, a 35-year-old music teacher from Bedford, struggling with depression and disappointment, decides to end her life — only to find herself in that mysterious library at midnight.

The shelves stretch into eternity. Each book offers her the chance to live a different life. A chance to make different choices. If Nora had chosen differently, she might have become a rock star, an Olympic champion, a glaciologist, gotten married, or moved to Australia.
But what would her life be like then?
Would she truly be happy — or not?..