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by Jon McGregor


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  THIS ISN’T THE SORT OF THING THAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU

  Tender, sad, funny and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain’s finest contemporary writers

  A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. 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.

  ‘Jon McGregor’s stories are strange and lovely masterpieces’

  Sarah Hall

  ‘McGregor is the nearest thing you will ever come across to a literary Beethoven. Words go beyond being tools of his trade and become an orchestrated, inspired and precisely designed tone poem for each creative idea … One of the most perfect pieces of written English I have ever come across’

  Sunday Express

  ‘Jon McGregor writes with frightening intelligence and impeccable technique. Every page is a revelation’

  Teju Cole

  ‘Sharp, dark and hugely entertaining, this collection establishes McGregor as one of the most exciting voices in short fiction’

  Observer

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