Jon McGregor est un auteur britannique dont les œuvres explorent les complexités des relations humaines et le pouvoir tranquille des moments quotidiens. Sa prose se caractérise par une observation aiguë et une précision poétique, abordant souvent des thèmes tels que la mémoire, la perte et la recherche de connexion au sein de vies apparemment ordinaires. Le style distinctif de McGregor entraîne les lecteurs dans les profondeurs de l'expérience humaine, où des événements banals se déroulent avec une résonance émotionnelle inattendue. Sa contribution littéraire réside dans sa capacité à trouver un sens profond dans les recoins silencieux de la vie.
"Our first book, Reverse Engineering, is a collection of seven of the best modern short stories, each followed by a discussion with the writer – on their instincts, processes and ideas on writing." -- Publisher website
A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A genuine masterpiece' Observer 'Spectacular' Maggie O'Farrell 'The most gripping piece of writing I've read in a long time: Sit. Read. Applaud' Jarvis Cocker 'It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A 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 as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of reporters descends. But the aftershocks of Becky's disappearance have origins long before then, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own.
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss.
From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin A TV Book Club selection
Coventry Museum curator David Carter - a man driven constantly to seek the thrill of old stories made new - cannot help but wish for more- that his wife would still be the ambitious and sparkling Scottish girl he once found so irresistible, that his job could live up to the promise it once held, that his daughter's arrival will bring her parents closer together. But Auntie Julia's careless words years earlier have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around an untruth. And so he attempts to begin anew, cataloguing the joys and disappointments, the migrations and arrivals, the intersecting lives around him. Because once, long ago, a young Irish girl called Mary Friel arrived in war-time London an innocent and left carrying a shame; a shame she still hopes can be diminished by a knock at the door of her Donegal home. There are so many ways to begin, and to live; so many ways to love, and to not love, and to end. Against the backdrop of post-WW2 Britain, Jon McGregor's lyrical, intimate novel explores what happens when our lives fail to take the turns we expect, and the ways we learn to let go of the people we might have been.
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.
