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So Many Ways to Begin
- Author
- Jon McGregor
- Narrator
- Matt Bates
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 February 2017
- Run Time
- 10 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.
Critics Review
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‘Extraordinary’ Daily Mail
‘Subtle, clever and affecting’ Independent on Sunday
‘A homage to ordinary people and ordinary things, to the parts of our lives that often go unspoken … moving and honest’ The Times
‘A book about the search for greater meaning in the strange dance of chance’ Independent
‘McGregor’s meticulous syntax melts into a hot flood of words … An intimate tale with penetrating things to say about the wider history of twentieth-century Britain’ Sunday Times
‘An absorbing and unexpectedly uplifting novel … It will leave you thinking long after you have put the book away on the shelf’ Irish Independent
‘A close reading of ordinary lives … tender and often
beautifully poetic’ Stephanie Merritt, Observer‘Both compelling and convincing. A deeply rewarding read, serious and often beautiful’ Good Book Guide
‘McGregor is a brilliant prose stylist, and here he excels at
making the provincial and the ordinary seem extraordinary’ Sunday Times‘This is a wonderful novel; low-key but beautifully paced,
scattered with extraordinarily intense moments’ Independent on Sunday‘This is an unforgettable novel' Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Jon McGregor
- Narrator
- Matt Bates
- Duration
- 10 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 February 2017
- ISBN
- 9780008228477
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.
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