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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So it was just...
I was very pleased with that concept.
Obviously, you never know when you're writing a book how it's going to go down, especially with fiction.
You have no idea.
And I think a lot of the reason of its success was totally random and coincidental, combined with the pandemic and everyone having their existential moment.
But I did know writing it that the concept was, like, perfect for me in terms of what I could then write about and explore.
And it just...
There's certain books you write, I think Stephen King once said that, there's certain books you write that feel like pushing a boulder up a mountain, and then there's other books you write where it's downhill and everything's just going faster and faster, and this was one of those downhill books, and it just felt easier and easier to write.
Well, seed I always liked because for obvious sort of metaphorical reasons, it can just be you're planting a seed and it can grow.
So her life, the life she's in is small and tiny like a seed, but it can grow into whatever she wants it to be.
So I like the idea of that.
And I always like the name Nora.
And the problem with being a writer when you've written lots of books is you run out of names.
Because all the names, all the fantasy names you'd call your children or whatever, you've used all those by about book three.
So you've used other cool names.
So unless you want to repeat yourself.
And Nora was the one I hadn't.
I think we were going to call my daughter Nora, but she ended up being Pearl.
But yeah, we're going to have Nora as a daughter for a while.
So Nora became that character.
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