Also by Matt Haig
The Last Family in England
The Dead Fathers Club
The Possession of Mr Cave
The Radleys
The Humans
Humans: An A–Z
Reasons to Stay Alive
How to Stop Time
Notes on a Nervous Planet
The Midnight Library
The Comfort Book
For Children
The Runaway Troll
Shadow Forest
To Be A Cat
Echo Boy
A Boy Called Christmas
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
Father Christmas and Me
The Truth Pixie
Evie and the Animals
The Truth Pixie Goes to School
Evie in the Jungle
A Mouse Called Miika
VIKING
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First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2024
First published in the United States by Viking, 2024
Copyright © 2024 by Matt Haig
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Epigraph taken from Borges on Writing by Jorge Luis Borges. Copyright © 1973, Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Daniel Halpern, Frank McShane. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
“Promised Land” written by Joseph Lorenzo Welbon (Joe Smooth) © 1987 Picadilly Music Corp / Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd.
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Extract from Richard Feynman interview in “The Smartest Man in the World” by Omni Magazine. Reproduced with permission from Michelle Feynman & Carl Feynman.
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Names: Haig, Matt, 1975– author.
