The Humans

<p><b>Matt Haig</b> has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels <i>The Humans</i> <i>How to Stop Time </i>and <i>The Midnight Library</i> several children's books and most recently the self-help book <i>The Comfort Book</i>.<br><br>@matthaig1 | @mattzhaig | matthaig.com</p> <p><b>THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOME</b><br><br>After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone that is except Newton (and he's a dog).<br><br>Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race?</p> <b>'Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish and <i>The Humans</i> is undoubtedly his magnum opus' <i>Guardian</i></b> Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot A wonderfully funny gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will love marriage logic immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy Great idea great plot and superb comedy especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish and <i>The Humans</i> is undoubtedly his magnum opus A novel with an enormous heart infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are Haig's unexpectedly raw tale of love belonging and peanut butter . . . Funny clever and quite quite lovely Excellent . . . very human and touching indeed <i>The Humans</i> is tremendous; a kind of <i>Curious Incident</i> meets <i>The Man Who Fell to Earth</i>. It's funny touching and written in a highly appealing voice <i>The Humans</i> is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling thrilling puzzling believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin A brilliant exploration of what it is to love and to be human <i>The Humans</i> is both heartwarming and hilarious weird and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time <p><b>THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOME</b><br><br>After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone that is except Newton (and he's a dog).<br><br>Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race?</p>