―James Wood, The New Yorker, "McGregor is a beautiful, controlled writer, who can convey the pathos of a life in a few lines.

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Warning: May contain spoilers. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside. Everyone is called upon to join the search. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The book is a rare and dazzling feat of art.". . . This is an ambitious tour de force that demands the reader’s attention; those willing to follow along will be rewarded with a singular and haunting story. Let it." An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, "McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation.  |  In If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things McGregor keeps his camera close on his subject; in Reservoir 13, his first novel in seven years, he pulls out for a broader perspective. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, England, where he edits, With such diverse subjects as Arthurian myths and Ojibwa prophecies, unicorns and orcas, basketball and (. He brings to his writing not only the gift of seeing and imagining, but the capacity of hypothesizing and hypnotizing. ISBN13: 9781936787708

A remarkable achievement [and a] subtle unravelling of what we think of as the conventional project of the novel." The set-up of Jon McGregor’s fourth novel is, thankfully, familiar to most of us only through crime fiction, television drama or the voyeuristic lens of the news report. We see people grow up, relationships falter, friendships grow and all the time the backdrop of the missing girl from the first chapter. Marriages are created and destroyed (and sometimes, re-created). Catapult ―BookPage, "A wonderful book. The prose is alive and ringing. British author Jon McGregor is unconventional, to say the least, and not what you may expect. I don't know how he's done it. Will read others by this author.

An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside. The helicopter had been out all night and found nothing, its searchlight skimming across the heather and surging brown streams. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Children grow up to be teenagers. strange, daring, and very moving. The book is a rare and dazzling feat of art that also (in my reading of it) outs us, in a gentle way, for a certain gratuitous drama-seeking tendency we all tend to have as readers―a tendency that makes it harder to see the very real, consequential, beautiful, and human-scaled dramas occurring all around is in real life, in every moment (in nature, in human affairs)." ―Yiyun Li, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, “Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary―the way it’s structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon McGregor lets the characters breathe and age. He quietly inserts distinct, convincing voices into vivid and compelling landscapes. This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories, Reservoir 13: Winner of The 2017 Costa Novel Award: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and two story collections. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace.

As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart.

. [An] astonishing new novel . Set in the Peak District, this novel is a biography of a village and its characters over the years. . ", "McGregor’s unforgettable novel begins with a 13-year-old girl’s disappearance from an English village, and then tracks the village through the following years, as teenagers become adults, babies are born, people grow old and die, and couples get together and separate while what happened to the girl remains a mystery. McGregor portrays individuals and the community as a whole, across seasons, in mundane scenes and moments of heartbreak, cruelty, and guilt. . The entire village assembles to look for her. ―Booklist (starred review), "The writing is extraordinary."

. ―Sarah Hall, Betty Trask Award-winning author of The Wolf Border, “Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. It's beautiful."

. Lambs, foxes, bats, badgers, bugs, and babies are born. The only sounds were footsteps and dogs barking along the road and faintly a helicopter from the reservoirs. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. Winner of the Costa Novel Award, Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Despite the large cast of characters, each feels specific and real.