It's been said that beyond the edge of the universe, between life and death, there is a library.

And within that library, the shelves extend forever.

With an infinite number of books. Every book on every shelf provides the reader with a chance to

try out another life they could have lived. Maybe see how things would have turned out if you had made other choices.

Would you have done anything different if you had the opportunity to undo your heaviest regrets?

Matt Haig's novel, The Midnight Library, follows Nora's Seed as she travels this infinite space,

searching for what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes life worth living in the first place.

Matt Haig is an author for both children and adults.

His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller,

staying in the British Top 10 for 46 weeks.

His children's book, A Boy Called Christmas, was a runaway hit and is translated in over 40

languages.

His novels for adults include the award-winning How to Stop Time, the Radley's, the

Humans, and the number one bestseller, The Midnight Library, which we will be traveling to

in just a moment. He will be accompanied by an original score crafted by Robert Winniea,

as well as an original Storybound remix.

Hi, I'm Matt Haig and this is Storybound.

I will be reading from my novel The Midnight Library, a story about a woman called

Nora who finds herself in an infinite library between life and death where every book on

the shelf is a different version of her own life if she had lived it

a different way. And this particular section is one of those lives, one of those books off

a shelf as she steps into where she finds herself as a glaciologist in the Arctic Circle.

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