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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Off The Shelf with Morgann Book · #51: Why Matt Haig Reads 1-Star Reviews of The Midnight Library · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

You don't have the world build around it.

They just go with the idea of a unicorn.

You can have a unicorn just in your back garden and they will go with that.

Not because they believe in unicorns, but they're so willing to go with the daydream.

Whereas with adults, if you're writing a realistic book and then you put a unicorn in it, you have to do a whole essay on quantum physics to explain why that unicorn appears.

Well, depends what you mean.

Like my first memory of turning pages, we lived in the countryside in England and there were lots of farms around and we used to get catalogs of like tractors and combine harvesters.

And I was obsessed with this catalog that would come.

I think the company was like Massey Ferguson or something.

And there was these big red combine harvesters.

And I was just so excited as a two or three year old just with turning the pages of catalogs.

So I'd just sit there

waiting for the big red tractor on the next page.

So if you count that as reading, if turning a page is reading, that was reading.

Then it was like Enid Blyton books, Noddy Goes to Market, things like that.

I was obsessed with Noddy Goes to Market.

There was a character called Big Ears and I was obsessed with him.

My mum always says, and I think it's a lie, but my mum always says that I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

at like age three or four.

I definitely didn't.

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