The Midnight Train by Matt Haig audiobook review – a cosy, feelgood journey

Actor James Norton brings a sense of gentle longing to this tale of an octogenarian looking back on the life he’s departed The latest novel from the Reasons to Stay Alive author Matt Haig begins with an octogenarian man having a heart attack. Former business magnate Wilbur Budd is already feeling a bit peculiar when he receives a phone call from his ex-wife, Maggie, who he hasn’t heard from in years. “I wanted to hear your voice,” she tells him wistfully. Minutes after getting off the phone, Wilbur collapses on his front lawn and dies. What sounds like the end of a story is, in fact, the begin

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