If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (29 page)

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter’s arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother’s friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.

‘McGregor’s careful prose is sharpened by anticipation and expectation’

Observer

‘An intimate tale with penetrating things to say about the wider
history of twentieth-century Britain’
Sunday Times

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006

First published in Great Britain 2002
This electronic edition published in 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Copyright © 2002 by Jon McGregor

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ISBN 978 1 4088 3442 8

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