If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

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But mostly there was this moment of absolute silence. Absolute stillness. It couldnt actually have been like that of course there must still have been music playing and traffic passing along the main road but the way I remember it is with this one weighted pause the whole street frozen in a tableau of gaping mouths. On a street in a unnamed town in the North of England perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - street cricket barbecues painting windows...But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again. Jon McGregors first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original humane and moving IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS is a remarkable debut.