If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is an amazing book that looks into the lives of odinary people but with such a deep and provoking prose. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is about the actions of charcters in one small town in one day, the characters and the town remains anoymous and we just circle around these people's lives. Perhaps circle isn't the right word to use you get into it but not too deep, just about as close as if you were watching from a window. A serious event happens in this little town and we're never told what it is but you can suspect. We see the story through two people, one who is in the present and is seeing the event unfold in front of them and ...

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

during the course of that particular day continue to be revealed throughout the novel, interwoven with a thread relating to life-changing events that are currently affecting the narrator. Reading Jon McGregor s first novel is almost like being a fly on the wall, settling for a few minutes and then moving on to the house next door or the one opposite. Hardly any names are mentioned in the book - the narrator can remember clearly what happened but admits to having forgotten people s names. It does become a little confusing trying to remember exactly who the woman at number nineteen or the man in the attic flat at number twenty-one are, but perhaps this is a close ...