PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Professor Andrew Martin is a former citizen of Vonnadoria who travelled nine million light years to become a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Ever since discovering poetry and peanut butter and something called 'love' he has warmed to this species and decided to call Earth his home. Matt Haig is the author of five novels, including the bestselling The Last Family in England, which has been optioned by Brad Pitt's production company, The Radleys, which was selected for Channel 4's TV Book Club and was voted the winner of the series in 2011 and, his most recent, The Humans, which is a World Book Night 2014 title. His works have been translated into over twenty languages, and he has also written award-winning books for children. He lives in York and London.
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. Booklist starred review of The Humans
