IF PEOPLE DON'T SPEAK OF REMARKABLE THINGS, by Jon McGregor

At my book launch the other day, one of my old university friends recommended If people don't talk of remarkable things to me. So I got it.
   It's not often I'm lost for words, but reading this book has left me in that rare state. It is amazing, written in an unconventional but equally amazing style, and every description, every piece of dialogue, is almost poetic. It's one of those books which make me wonder why I bother to write.
   If I was being ultra-critical I might say I'd have written the ending slightly differently... but that's it. Oh, and I spotted one typo!
   Read this book. It's one of the soundest pieces of advice you'll read all year.
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