Matthew Haig's latest book, The Life Impossible (#1,291), has gotten mixed reviews from the critics. If I remember correctly, their objections had to do with the fantastical turn his novel took. Have they read his previous best-seller, The Midnight Library? The fantastical is Haig's thing.
I enjoyed this story set on the island of Ibiza, a place I have never been to, but have now added to my list of places to see before I die. The premise is that the protagonist writes to his former teacher about how miserably his life seems to be going, and in return, gets a lengthy letter from her, telling how an act of kindness many years previously led to her being left a house on Ibiza. Recently widowed, she decides to explore her inheritance on the island. Things do not turn out as she expected!
I won't spoil things for you, but there is definitely a woo-woo aspect to her encounters as she meets friend and foe alike and her rather ordinary life is changed forever. If you liked The Midnight Library, you won't have any trouble suspending disbelief to immerse yourself in The Life Impossible.
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