The Life Impossible

Matt Haig is an English author and has experience working as an English teacher and a journalist. He has published 12 children’s books, most notably A Boy Called Christmas. This 2015 title “was a runaway hit,” which The Guardian called an “instant classic” (“Home.” Matt Haig). The book has since been “translated into over 40 languages” and was “made into a film starring Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent” in 2021 (“Home”). Haig has also published seven works of nonfiction. His 2015 memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, was an international bestseller and stayed on the British publishing charts for nearly a year. Haig is also the author of nine works of adult and literary fiction. His 2011 novel, The Radleys, straddles the lines between domestic fiction and fantasy and was adapted for the screen by Lionsgate in August 2024. Haig is also known for his 2020 novel, The Midnight Library, which explores isolation, mental health, and the healing power of books. These themes recur in The Life Impossible. Haig describes the book as his “big life-and-love-and-the-universe novel” (“