
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
A girl goes missing on Midsummer Eve on the moors above a small English village. The novel follows the lives of the villagers over the following thirteen years, as the community processes the absence, grief, and gossip that attend the disappearance. A formally radical novel told in a flat, accumulating prose that won the Costa Novel Award. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018.
About the Author
Jon McGregorBritish
Jon McGregor is a British novelist born in Bermuda in 1976, raised in Norfolk. His debut novel If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002) won the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Even the Dogs (2010) won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Read more →

