After all, every day people wake up and see the same face they saw in the mirror yesterday. Initially the ‘sufferer’ of the condition won’t notice they have it. What happens after that is, well, not much. The first respected doctor to give it one, back in the 1890s, called it ‘anageria’ with a soft ‘g’, but, for reasons that will become clear, that never became public knowledge. It is not in any official medical journals.
One that no one knows about until they have it. Illness suggests sickness, and wasting away. I thought of it as an illness for quite a while, but illness isn’t really the right word.
Though I think she might have added that – should He exist – the smile had been a frown ever since. It was a warm day, apparently, for the time of year, and my mother had asked her nurse to open all the windows. To give you an idea: I was born well over four hundred years ago on the third of March 1581, in my parents’ room, on the third floor of a small French château that used to be my home. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.Old in the way that a tree, or a quahog clam, or a Renaissance painting is old. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits." -The Washington Post
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