About the author… Matt Haig

He is an English writer of bestselling novels for adults and children. In his twenties he had a breakdown and contemplated ending his own life.: “I wanted to write something quite philosophical and fun about mental health. As soon I had the idea of the library being a portal between worlds, I thought that was perfect because that’s kind of what a library is anyway. This book has more of my life in it than any of my other novels. Nora is very similar to me in my twenties. It’s emotionally quite autobiographical.”