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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Like it's a magical therapy session.

And she's getting exposure therapy by seeing all these different lives she could have lived.

So it's sort of like a fantasy therapy session.

And so I was sort of writing this.

And Mrs. Alma's the perfect therapy.

And I'm someone who believes reading can be therapy.

So it all fit with the library.

And I think that was it.

It was trying to tell myself that...

Because I have lots of regrets to do with health, to do with relationships, all kinds of things.

And often a key feature of depression to me was that sort of guilt and regret and heaviness.

So I was writing The Midnight Library to say, well, you just don't know.

You could have chosen a healthier path.

You could have made a different decision in a relationship.

But you never know.

There's no point drowning in what ifs.

And also...

I know as I get older, some of the worst periods of my life led to some of the best periods later on.

So you never know.

You could choose the life where you're a billionaire or you're a rock star or whatever, but you don't know what comes with that.

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