Matt Haig

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

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

Especially in this country.

It's kind of, I don't know, you're not really meant to do it.

You're not meant to be emotional.

Yeah, earnest.

And I certainly, when I started writing, I wasn't writing...

this sort of thing like many years ago I was writing quite bleak books I wrote a book called that no one read called The Possession of Mr Cave and literally everyone died and there was no light in it so it was about this really possessive overprotective father who thought he was doing his best for his daughter and he wasn't and it's just about you know there's literally no light there's no hope at all and I was so depressed writing that and I thought

what is the point of like putting just more misery?

Well, I think if you think of like, I can't speak for you guys, but like me, like when I was 20, the sort of books I was loving would not do that much for me now.

You know, it was very much like 90s, quite, quite extreme, sort of edgy, laddy.

You could read Catcher in the Rye at one point in your life.

And then another point, it's like, what are you whining about?

Yeah.

And it didn't start off being any kind.

I mean, it's not a sequel, but it didn't start off being any kind of follow up.

It wasn't Midnight anything.

It was a book called The Memory Thief.

The first draft of this was about AI, weirdly.

The only thing that remained was the honeymoon in Venice.

The original idea was a bit sort of Black Mirror-ish, where it was just like a honeymoon in Venice.

And then Venice started disappearing and he didn't know why Venice was, and then his wife started disappearing.

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