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  • By: Jon McGregor
  • Narrated by: Matt Bates
  • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

A White Review Book of the Year

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa Award-winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. 

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching—for the men involved and for their families back home.

Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerisingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories—even when words fail us. A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.
©2021 Jon McGregor (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Action & Adventure Literary Fiction
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Critic Reviews

"A genuine masterpiece: poised, multilayered and full of the most astonishingly beautiful prose." (Alex Preston, Observer)

"It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story." (Hilary Mantel)

"So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting." (Maggie O’Farrell)

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  • 11-05-2021

Slow Story

The difficulty of life after a stroke is well depicted in this narrative. The plot line of the protagonist’s role in the death of one of the new workers provides more interest. However I found the story dragged & moved too slowly.

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Superb reading of a very moving story

I believe that it was the narrator who made this story so moving. His management of the very difficult journey a stroke victim travels was super b.

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