Today, we have three well-established novelists, with their latest works. Today, we have three well-established novelists, with their latest works. For those immersed in literary and popular fiction, the names Matt Haig, Janice Hallett, and William Boyd will be very familiar, and it’s good to find them still in top form.
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig As the author of The Midnight Library , How to Stop Time , and The Radleys (soon to be a film); Haig is avidly read and followed for his light sense of humor, and the degree of compassion and ‘malasakit’ he bestows on his protagonists. We readily identify with them, and invest our sympathies, recognizing that what they’re going through may be very similar to what we have encountered in our own lives. In this latest, his main character is Grace Winters, a 72-year-old retired math teacher in Lincolnshire, England.
She’s a widow, and had lost her son in a traffic accident when he was 11. She’s surprised to find that a long lost friend, Christina, who she has not seen in decades, suddenly bequeaths her with a rundown home on the island of Ibiza. And it’s here that the real adventure begins.
Armed with a one way ticket, and no real plan, Grace lands on Ibiza, and soon discovers there’s a lot of mystery surrounding the life, and “death,” of her friend - and the St. Christopher’s medal Grace gave Christina all those decades ago. She meets the highly dubious Alberto Ribas, the man last seen with Christina; and en.