Reservoir 13: Winner of The 2017 Costa Novel Award

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The novel that blew me away this year was Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13. It's one of the most finely wrought books I've read in recent years. Only an extraordinarily accomplished writer can create, and people, a world with such linguistic restraint yet to such moving, even haunting, effect. It's a slow burn and deeply satisfying." --Eimear McBride, "Who Read What in 2017," The Wall Street Journal

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Group therapy is an intriguing choice of subject matter. As participants are urged to choose smiley or unhappy emojis to describe their week, and dancers arrive to encourage expression through movement, the whole narrative feels poised between scepticism, impatience and admiration. Robert walks out twice. But the novel holds us there in the room. It’s in these sessions that we come closest to the kind of collective voice that McGregor has explored in previous novels – in the shared narration of the troubled, vociferous, unheard addicts of Even the Dogs, rising between them like a Greek chorus, and in the passive, impersonal recording of the whole village in Reservoir 13. Now the strenuously made words of the group members float together on a common stream of effort.

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Each chapter of Reservoir 13 begins at New Year, as the local crime story morphs into an observation of the passing of time.

I began Lean Fall Stand hoping I’d experience again the inventiveness and lyricism I’d enjoyed in Jon McGregor’s previous novel Reservoir 13. His latest book turned out to be sublime: a tale of loss and survival that reveals both the power and the limitations of language. Where Reservoir 13 explored the effects of a tragedy…

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At midnight when the year turned there were fireworks going up from the towns beyond the valley but no one in the village even lifted their heads to look. The Peak District Dark Peak area is known for its peaty moors and this basically means it can be boggy in areas. If you’re doing a longer hike then it’s good to keep your feet dry, Gore-tex hiking shoes and boots are great, but for some walks, gaiters are really useful too, especially on a rainy day hike.A book of rhythms to be taken slowly. Don’t expect a fast paced mystery. Devour every word and every moment. I liked this book although it was one of those books where, as I approached the end, I felt very creeped out…i.e., ‘who committed the terrible crime?’. I stressed “very” in She could have walked high over the moor and stumbled into a flooded clough and sunk cold and deep in the wet peat before the dogs and thermal cameras came anywhere near, her skin tanned leather-brown and soft and her hair coiled neatly around her. She could have fallen anywhere and be lying there still.” A new novel from the absurdly gifted Jon McGregor, seven years after the IMPAC-winning Even the Dogs, Reservoir 13 is haunting and heartbreaking, the tale of a disappearance and its aftermath--his best yet." -- The Guardian, "Fiction to look out for in 2017" Absolutely OUTSTANDING . . . Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has . . . an incredible book, I just adored it." --Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let The Great World Spin

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Beautifully written, with an ever-present sense of the narrator being less of a person or a being, and more as the all-seeing village that overlooks all, and looks over all. It looks over the landscape that surrounds them, the village and the villagers, watching as life changes with the seasons and the passing of time. McGregor's book achieves a visionary power . . . he has written a novel with a quiet but insistently demanding, even experimental form. The word "collage" implies something static and finally fixed, but the beauty of " Reservoir 13" is in fact rhythmic, musical, ceaselessly contrapuntal . . . A remarkable achievement [and a] subtle unravelling of what we think of as the conventional project of the novel." --James Wood, The New Yorker Update 29/8/17: Having read all but four of the longlist, this one is still my favourite. The rest of my shortlist would be Autumn, Home Fire, Days Without End, Solar Bones and Elmet. Of the remaining four, Lincoln in the Bardo is the most likely to change my mind.Watch that scene next to one in which, cornered by evidence gathered by the investigation, he relents and offers to “go through it all” with Stuart and Khan, “these girls.” Finch is calm and knowledgeable, speaking like a textbook in both. It’s quite the same man. “At the end of the day Tim, it’s your word against hers” Everybody knows everything, or thinks they do, despite a very British reticence about asking anything personal outright. If you want a traditional crime or mystery novel, this is not it. It could almost be described as a series of damp squibs, which is an appropriate metaphor in one way: every subsequent chapter starts “ At midnight when the year turned…” and uses the proximity and number of fireworks to reflect the gradual return to how things used to be. However, it’s too derogatory a metaphor for such a well-crafted book.