The movie rights have gone to Tanya Seghatchian (Harry Potter, My Summer of Love producer) at Apocalypto and I’m currently writing the screenplay. It is a love story and a murder story and a what-are-we-here-for? story. I don’t want to tell you it is a book that features an alien in it, because you might not like books with aliens in it, and I don’t really.
I put absolutely everything I had into it so if people don’t like it then they don’t like me, because all the best things I have to offer the world are inside its pages. I have never written anything like it and probably never will again. They were all so beautifully written and developed, I couldn’t help but love each of them, flaws and all.This is the book I am most proud of.
I can’t really describe how it made me feel, but it was so funny and painful and true that I found myself empathising with not only the main character, but his long-suffering wife Isobel and their angsty teenage son, Gulliver. I can honestly say that The Humans is the first book that changed the way I see people completely – how we are always more complicated than we seem, and how our lives are a catastrophe and a miracle all at once. The prose is simple yet stunningly effective, and is easy to read but hard to understand, which was one of my favourite things about the book. The narrator may have a flat, one-sided view of humanity, but once the layers of prejudice start to peel away, that is where things start to get interesting. What I found particularly interesting was the third person outlook on humanity how we can be capable of both intense cruelty and stunning beauty all at the same time. We follow the narrator as he goes from being a detached, hateful outsider to a complex, well-rounded character that is essentially no different from any other human.
The way in which Haig handles the endlessly complicated issue of human nature and emotion is effortless.
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