Going back after a very long life and, therefore, seeing everything through the eyes of experience. That is the opportunity offered to Wilbur Budd, who owns a bookstore empire but is very lonely. Budd is the protagonist of the new novel by the British author Matt Haig (Sheffield, 1975), The Midnight Train (Empúries/ADN), translated into Catalan by Esther Roig Giménez. Haig has published more than twenty books and achieved international success with The Midnight Library (2020), with more than 10 million copies sold. Now he returns to using fantastic elements to talk about the possibilities that life offers us and to delve into one of the themes he likes most: how to get out of the pit.