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That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for ever.Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. 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All he can do is keep going, but something has gone wrong inside his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack home, he is the only one who can explain what happened to them in Antarctica. But after what changed on the ice, everything has lost its meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow his wife, Anna, must become his carer. Now he must find a new way to be in the world. All he can do is try to tell his story – even if words fail him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The most gripping piece of writing I’ve read in a long time: Sit. Read. 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A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do.Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201219461298,"sku":"9780008218652","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008218652.jpg?v=1785658579"},{"product_id":"9780008204891","title":"Reservoir 13","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARAN FT BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ‘A rare and dazzling feat of art’ George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall, author of The Wolf Border\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary – the way it’s structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon McGregor lets the characters breathe and age’ Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201220313266,"sku":"9780008204891","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008204891.jpg?v=1785658879"},{"product_id":"9780008218690","title":"If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things","description":"WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARDWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEOn a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence – street cricket, barbecues, painting windows… A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. 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