The Life Impossible – the remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, the author of the multimillion-selling international sensation The Midnight Library – is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

The Life Impossible shows how a new outlook can burst into life at any moment and change everything.

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet …

When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the lifechanging power of a new beginning.

‘Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories’ – Neil Gaiman

About the author

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of books for adults and children. He has written three works of non-fiction including Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet, as well as seven novels for adults, including How to Stop Time and, most recently, The Midnight Library, which has been a Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller and sold over nine million copies worldwide. Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which was made into a feature film with an all-star cast. His work has been translated into 54 languages.

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