MATT HAIG
EVEN CLOSE TO 20 YEARS INTO A CAREER that has garnered bestsellers and plaudits, Matt Haig says he still suffers from moments of doubt about his professional trajectory. “As human beings, we’re just prone generally to the grass-is-greener idea,” he says. “I know that with me, as a writer, I compare myself unhealthily to other writers. It’s just what we do.”
We also compare ourselves to imagined, hypothetical versions of ourselves – an idea that underpins Haig’s new novel, . “Even during 2020,
