After an incident one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not quite feeling 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. Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mutual mind about the human race?
What has been said about The Humans by Matt Haig
Ian Ranklin has said this novel is, Humane, bittersweet and very moving.
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I couldn’t believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes. I was pretty sure that most humans must have known what a naked human looked like. It wasn’t as though I had done something wrong while not wearing clothes. At least, not yet. They placed me inside a small room that was, in perfect accord with all human rooms, a shrine to the rectangle. The funny thing was that although this room looked precisely no better no worse than anything else in that police station, or indeed that planet, the officers seemed to think it was a particularly punishment to be placed in this place a cell more than any other room. They are in a body that dies, I chuckled to myself, and they worry more about being locked in a room! This was where they told me to get dressed. To cover myself up. So I picked up those clothes and did my best and then, once I had worked out which limb went through which opening, they said I had to wait for an hour. Which I did. Of course, I could have escaped. But I realised it was more likely that I would find what I needed by staying there, with the police and their computers. Plus, I remembered what I had been told. Use your gifts wisely. You must try and be like them. You must strive to be normal. Then the door opened.
About author Matt Haig
MATT HAIG has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time, and The Midnight Library, several children’s books, the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and most recently The Comfort Book. http://www.matthaig.com/http://www.instagram.com/mattzhaig
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