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Matt Haig

Sunday Times Best Selling Author and Mental Health Awareness Activist

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Gender: Male

Languages: English

Travels from: United Kingdom

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Matt Haig, a novelist and journalist, has written several award-winning books for both children and adults. After writing several self-help books, Matt has become an advocate for mental health awareness, and he is frequently asked to speak about his own personal battle with depression.

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About Matt Haig

Sunday Times Number One Best Seller
Author of Reasons to Stay Alive
Sold Over Three Million Books World Wide

Matt Haig is a best-selling author and mental health speaker who has previously suffered from a major depressive disorder. Having tried to take his own life at the age of 24, Matt has become an advocate for mental health conditions using his platform to enlighten audiences on the issues he’s experienced as well as helping give them the tools to live a positive life.

An award-winning writer Matt’s works include fiction, non-fiction and children’s books in a variety of genres. His book Reasons to Stay Alive became a Sunday Times best-seller detailing his own experiences with a major depressive disorder and anxiety. The book focuses on making the most of your life including chapters on severe depression, panic disorders and how he goes about his day-to-day life living with depression. When booked as a mental health speaker he can relive these traumatic experiences, showing his audiences how he has now learned to appreciate life while still combating his conditions.

Matt’s career has also seen him achieve big success as a children’s writer and he’s best known for dealing with dark themes making them accessible but not overwhelming for younger readers. This includes his book Shadow Forest which won the prestigious Nestle Children’s Book Prize in 2007. Other novels including A Boy Called Christmas and How to Stop Time have been adapted into film starring the likes of Dame Maggie Smith, Kristen Wiig and Jim Broadbent.

In his 20s Matt was first diagnosed with depression and aged 24 tried to take his own life. Following this experience, he realised he needed to seek help and this is something he is able to discuss at length during his mental health speaking events, the importance of speaking up.

When he isn’t working on his next book Matt spends a lot of time as a speaker, keen to help those who are going through similar things that he’s experienced. Always leaving an impact on audiences, Matt’s refreshingly honest and composed approach to a heavy topic makes him a hit time and time again.

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The Midnight Library: A Novel

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Reasons to Stay Alive

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. “I wrote this book because the oldest clichés remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven’t been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.”