If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 275, [6]. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; integral ribbon bookmark. Jacket design by William Webb (priced £12.99 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title page.

Winner of the 2003 Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize [the award's youngest contender]. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for 2002. Nominated for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.

Author's first novel. A multi-layered narrative charting a single day in the life of an ordinary suburban English street that will be shaken by a dramatic event which will make the seemingly prosaic, extraordinary. Inspired by the public reaction to the death of Princess Diana and set in the city of Bradford, where McGregor was living at the time. "A powerfully moving vision of contemporary Britain, a remarkably accomplished first novel." –The Times