Audiobook: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

My book of the year. A magical, spellbinding, profound novel Maggie OFarrell, Daily Telegraph



A sensationally accomplished debut a convincing and moving vision of contemporary Britain Sunday Times



This is a novel of wonders Observer



This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society An assured debut The Times



This is an ordinary world, shabby and melancholy, but McGregor describes it with mesmeric power you wont read anything much more poignant than this Daily Telegraph



This is ecstatic writing, suffused with delight both at the things evoked and at the language that can recreate them McGregors conviction will carry them a long way TLS



A dream of a novel It is not every novelist who has the gift, as Jon McGregor does, of reminding his readers of that heaven in a wild flower, that infinity in a grain of sand The Times



McGregor's publishers must be openly rejoicing If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is the work of a burning new talent Daily Mail



McGregor is an exemplary archivist of the humdrum written by someone who detects so passionately the remarkable in the everyday Spectator



Extraordinary McGregors triumphant prose-poem of ordinariness has a very contemporary kind of spirituality about it Sunday Times



Wonderful Full of gentle wonder and blinding insight He has annotated the miracle of life Glasgow Herald