If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: A Novel by Jon McGregor - Paperback
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*If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things* is a Booker Prize–nominated novel that intricately portrays the lives of residents on a quiet English street over the course of a single summer day. The narrative delves into the private thoughts and emotions of a diverse group: a single father with scarred hands, a group of young people recovering from an all-night rave, and a young man haunted by unrequited love. The novel explores their hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs, gradually building to a shocking and tragic twist that disrupts their otherwise ordinary lives. Written in a prose-poem style, it combines mystery with lyrical, character-driven storytelling, evoking comparisons to Virginia Woolf’s *To the Lighthouse* and *Mrs. Dalloway*. The book received critical acclaim, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by the “Los Angeles Times”.
