If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Author(s): Jon McGregor
On a street in a unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things... but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002 Winner of the Betty Trask Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize Shortlisted for Newcomer of theYear at the British Book Awards
Winner of Betty Trask Award 2003. Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2003.
"If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is a dream of a novel" - Erica Wagner, The Times "You won't read anything much more poignant than this" - William Leith, Daily Telegraph 'Even as it is shadowed by disaster, McGregor's careful prose is sharpened by anticipation and expectation. This is a novel of wonders' - Observer 'Overflows with prose as poetry... a beautiful novel ... unexpected, shocking, moving' - Big Issue
Jon McGregor is twenty-five and lives in Nottingham.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 01 May 2003
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jon McGregor
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 288
