Book Summary.

THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE
Matt Haig

I needed a good reason to cry. I think the tears were there by page 5 but they fell at page 23.

Sometimes when I read I try the suit on that the character is wearing. In this book, THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by Matt Haig we are introduced to Grace. Grace is 62 years old. She is a widow and retired math teacher who made some choices in her marriage that she wishes she hadn’t.

Now that her husband is no longer with us Grace feels trapped inside of time. Like a bee in amber, she is crystallized in the days before he died, filled with regrets and no possibility of making things better. No hope for forgiveness. No hope of moving forward.

Her hard life has hardened her and she has succumbed. To this way of being. How things are.

Until one day upon the death of a long ago friend she is left a home in Ibiza. With nothing keeping her rooted she chooses to fly to Ibiza, see the home that her friend had bequeathed and go from there.

What she finds there seems impossible. And at first, is at odds with her analytical mind, her structured way of thinking, and her narrow view of what is possible.

In order to understand she must first unlearn her way of being. Her way of moving through this world. She must die a little death in order for these new possibilities to exist within the same universe.