Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction - a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize`Extraordinary' Sarah Perry`Masterpiece' Colm T?ib?n`Wholly original. I absolutely loved it' David Nicholls`A brilliant, brilliant book' James RebanksBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.`The strangest and most beautiful memoir I've ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton`Flanagan's finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence' Guardian`Flanagan's portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas-mania is masterful' Daily Telegraph`A beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir. That it is a masterpiece is without question' Observer`Sometimes a book is an experience felt almost in the body. A celebration of all life, it is also a reckoning with the 20th century... It is intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder
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