The Life Impossible

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .

When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.


Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.


Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

Praise for Matt Haig: Magical, intriguing and, at times, very sad. A triumph -- MARIAN KEYES
Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories -- NEIL GAIMAN
Love this man's books -- JODI PICOULT
Matt Haig is astounding -- STEPHEN FRY
The king of empathy -- JAMEELA JAMIL
An uplifting, poignant novel about regret, hope and second chances -- DAVID NICHOLLS

Matt Haig is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, children's novel A Boy Called Christmas, and memoir Reasons to Stay Alive. His latest novel is The Life Impossible, which will be published in summer 2024. His work has been translated into over fifty languages.

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