Lean Fall Stand

‘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

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 mesmerizingly 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.

• A thrilling, deeply moving, utterly original novel that will appeal to readers of Ali Smith and David Szalay as well as Jon’s thousands of fans.

• Reservoir 13 was a huge success for 4th Estate, selling 95.5k TCM

• It was also a massive critical success, winning The Costa Novel of the Year 2017, and being named book of the year in countless publications.

• Jon was named one of the most significant working writers in the world by the TLS.

Competition: Reservoir 13;klara and the sun;beautiful world, where are you;never let me go;luster;memorial;a burning;light perpetual;the death of Francis Bacon;We are all birds of uganda;girl A. by;kazuo ishiguro;sally rooney;raven leilani;bryan washington;megha majumdar;francis spufford;max porter