The Humans - Softcover

Matt Haig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857868780 ISBN 13: 9780857868787

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Humans

About this title

About the Author:

MATT HAIG suffered a breakdown in his early twenties. After battling depression for a long time he turned to writing, and he now believes that reading and writing books saved his life. His novels include the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans, which in Canada was a Costco Buyer’s Pick and has sold approximately 15,000 copies. His books have been translated into thirty languages. All his novels for adults have been optioned for film. Matt lives in York with his wife and their two children.

Review:

“Funny, poignant, and full of heart.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel.” (The Times (UK))

“A masterpiece. . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus.” (The Guardian)

“A brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I’ve read in a very long time.” (S.J. Watson New York Times bestselling author of Before I go to Sleep)

“Funny, clever and quite, quite lovely.” (Sunday Times (London))

“Extraordinary.” (Independent (UK))

“An absolute corker of a novel: very clever, and very moving, and that rare and precious thing -laugh-out-loud funny.” (Daily Mail (UK))

“Matt Haig is a novelist of stunning talent, with a laser eye for the absurd and endless reserves of compassion. (Parade Picks)” (Parade)

“A thought-provoking, compulsively readable delight.” (Booklist (starred review))

“Delightful.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Quick-paced, touching, and hilarious.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“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, author of Coraline)

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857868780
• ISBN 13: 9780857868787
• Binding: Paperback