Review: Vivien Horler
The Life Impossible, by Matt Haig (Canongate)
Matt Haig is an enormously successful British writer who has sold untold numbers of novels, notably The Midnight Library, which is in the genre of magic realism, not one I particularly like.
At one point in this new novel I thought he’d obviously eaten all the mushrooms, because some weird stuff happens.
What the two books seem to have in common – and I haven’t read The Midnight Library – is that they both deal with conflicted women who have an experience that enables them to introspect, as the ANC puts it, consider the trajectory of their lives and how they can do better. Continue reading