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.
‘So Many Ways to Begin is an homage to ordinary people and ordinary things, to the parts of our lives that often go unspoken. Fittingly, the prose has a rhythmic clarity … moving and honest novel’ - Tom Gatti, The Times
“…the writing is powerfully spare and unadorned… So Many Ways to Begin is also an immensely sympathetic portrait of a marriage which survives through a kind of low-key, dogged devotion.†- Time Out London
“His work has been compared to Philip Larkin in the way that it draws on a certain monochrome Englishness but the colour and poetry of his writing brings a luminous depth to his subject.†- Metro
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About Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page , a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEDavid 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.
So Many Ways to Begin features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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So Many Ways to Begin was written by Jon McGregor and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
So Many Ways to Begin has 384 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
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