The Life Impossible
{4.5/5} “The willingness to be confused, I now realise, is a prerequisite for a good life. Wanting things to be simple can become a kind of prison, it really can, because you end up staying trapped inside how you want things to be rather than embracing how they could be. You end up closed. You end up shutting doors to so many possibilities.”
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig, published in 2024
Grace is a retired teacher whose husband and son have died. She receives an extraordinary letter saying she’s inherited a house in Ibiza from an old colleague she once spent a Christmas day with. So she flies there to check it out. The cab driver tells her that strange things happen on the island, but she’s not sure when she finds the house is small and dusty.
It’s about moving from a state of grief and guilt to a state where you can help others. It’s about appreciating life. And it’s about what you can do when you have telepathy.
Even if the story doesn’t completely speak to you, it’s worth reading for the ideas.
I’ve read 5 books by Haig. I previously reviewed The Midnight Library.