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It put him straight on the literary map when it was longlisted for the booker prize, as an outofleftfield choice. Jon mcgregor has garnered a reputation for a quiet but lyrical narrative style, and for seeking out the surprises, the delights, and the beauty and sometimes the less pleasant in the heart of the everyday world that surrounds us. Reading this book is the literary equivalent of stuffing your face with chocolate mud cake. But it is the authors exquisite rendering of the ordinary, the everyday, that gives this novel its freshness, its sense of beauty, wonder. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. It is an ordinary sunday afternoon up north, on an innercity street.
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