The Life Impossible
By Matt Haig
★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10
304 pages
What’s it about?
Seventy-two-year-old Grace Winters is a retired math teacher living in England when she suddenly inherits a house in Ibiza. Without much thought, she heads to Ibiza to see if she can change her life.
What did it make me think about?
Confirmation bias- the idea that we see and believe what we expect to see and believe.
Should I read it?
I enjoyed Matt Haig's last book- The Midnight Library. I can see many of the same qualities in this story that drew me to his last book. This book again dapples in magical realism and requires you to go on a rather imaginative journey with the author. I understand why some readers might say that this newer novel is verbose and perhaps overly sentimental. It is! But it is also a good story. This book is worth reading, but you might find yourself skimming a few pages...
A passage I marked
What I am about to tell you is a story even I find hard to believe. Please don't feel any obligation to take my word for anything. But know that nothing in this is made up. I have never believed in magic, and I still don't. But sometimes what looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet.
