The Humans (eBook)

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in over forty languages. @matthaig1 | matthaig.com

Utterly wonderful

A delightful, refreshing, humorous book that will remind you to treasure the joy in life

Astute, drolly hilarious and occasionally beautiful, full of poignant and painful insight into what it is to be human

A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin

This is a book I can see myself returning to again and again. I love it!

The Humans is tremendous; a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth.

It's funny, touching and written in a highly appealing voice

The Humans is a romantic look at people, at what builds us and what we have achieved. This can be seen in the wistful glances of poetry and music. If you took out all of the narrative aspects, The Humans could be seen as a collection of essays from a man pondering his own existence. Thank you Matt, for this map you have drawn for me and many others

Haig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter... It's funny, clever and quite, quite lovely

Excellent . . . very human and touching indeed

A brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time

My praise for this book is never-ending - I genuinely haven't loved a book as much as I love this one, in a very long time - and I'm sure that it will stay with me for a very long time to come. This is a book that I think everyone - regardless of your preferred genres - should pick up and read. It will have you laughing, give you goosebumps, make you gasp, bring a tear to your eye, and warm you from the inside out. This is, in my opinion, a perfect masterpiece

Full of dark humour and dry one-liners, and (former broadsheet journalist) Haig's unfussy style makes it an easy, enjoyable read

This is a tender, funny novel about the often irrational ways humans behave, written in accessible prose, and invites comparison with Mark Haddon and Patrick Ness

It's hard to describe just how good The Humans is. It's a book that has something for everybody. After all, it's about all of us. Funny and life affirming, it's one of those rarest of books; a feel good read that will stay with you long after reading. Read it, share it, live it

Humane, bittersweet and very moving

Extraordinary

Great idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways

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

Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot

THE HUMANS is the best thing I've read this year by a mile. It's going straight on my list of books I wish I'd written

The Humans is thoughtful, hopeful and honest and I loved every page

Haig strikes exactly the right tone of bemusement, discovery, and wonder in creating what is ultimately a sweet-spirited celebration of humanity and the trials and triumphs of being human. The result is a thought-provoking, compulsively readable delight

Witty and insightful and brilliantly written in a way that makes it easy to love