Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The main character was someone called Adam.

And so it was this male character.

And I just, I wasn't feeling the book at all.

It was just like...

I don't know.

It's hard to explain.

It was just too me.

It was too much me.

I was writing this guy called Adam, who was basically me.

But it's like, you know how it's hard to know exactly what you look like sometimes because you see your face too often in the mirror?

It was like looking in the mirror.

So I didn't see this person as a character.

But by changing the gender, changing the age and location, it suddenly became a character, someone who's not me.

So yes, obviously, as a male writer writing a female protagonist, there's issues and you have to be very careful how you write that and sensitive.

But it actually then opened up.

I could write the whole story because it just sort of clicked.

Wow.

That's such a good question.

Yeah, and I'm very mindful nowadays of letting people know

what I can't do, what my limitations are.

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