Lean Fall Stand

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A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR

It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story Hilary Mantel

So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting Maggie OFarrell

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.
When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching for the men involved and for their families back home.

Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories even when words fail us. A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.

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Praise for Lean Fall Stand:

Gripping, moving, magnificent Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire

Jon McGregor has crafted a unique narrative, encompassing frozen wastes & altered interior landscapes. The most gripping piece of writing Ive read in a long time: Sit. Read. Applaud Jarvis Cocker

Utterly original. Jaw-dropping. The sort of book youll think about for ages Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the Train

Another McGregor novel that, beneath its serene surface, takes huge risks Fortunately, its also another McGregor novel that triumphantly gets away with it The Times

'Lean Fall Stand is a beautiful piece of work and should win a roomful of prizes. Jon McGregor writes plainly and exactly, like a poet, and the precision of his writing makes every heartbeat register' Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light

A spectacular book It does what Jon McGregor does so well: examine the widening ripples of a single event. I read it again, as soon as I'd finished
Maggie OFarrell, author of Hamnet

Opens as excitingly as any work of fiction Ive recently read Its extraordinarily tense and atmospheric and McGregors prose is tight as a wire Telegraph

Exceptional. So moving, and the use of language is remarkable. I absolutely loved it David Nicholls, author of Sweet Sorrow

A genuinely fascinating book and a troubling, riveting reading experience. A bold and masterful investigation into the weather system of the human mind Max Porter, author of The Death of Francis Bacon

A genuine masterpiece: poised, multilayered and full of the most astonishingly beautiful prose Alex Preston, Observer

McGregors precise, well-judged prose attests to both the power of language and to the havoc created by its loss Financial Times

Author Bio

Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham.