Our Book Of The Month for May is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. For our online Book Clubbers we have some questions below for you to get involved with. Either answer in the comments section or use as discussion points at your next Book Club. If you haven’t read the book check out our Lowdown all about it here.
The Midnight Library – the blurb
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
Discussion Points
The following are written with the presumption you have read The Midnight Library. If you haven’t, bookmark the post and come back to answer the questions later.
- Haig is open about his mental health struggles. Can you tell the book was written by someone who has gone through similar problems to Nora?
- If you could choose any life for a day what would it be?
- Nora’s childhood spawned many possibilities for differing lives (Olympian, Rock Star, Glaciologist) Do you think your life holds as many options?
- Most of Nora’s lives contained an animal or two, what were their significance to The Midnight Library?
- How early on did you guess Nora would choose her original life?
- Have you read anything similar to The Midnight Library before? Have you read any Matt Haig books before? How are they similar/different?
Get Involved
Feel free to answer as many of the questions as you want. Post your replies below, discuss with us on social media using @BookSocialUK, or pose some questions of your own. If you enjoyed the questions, have a go at last month’s Get Involved: Any Human Heart.
