Your Life Without Me
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Publishing:12th Feb '26
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 12th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love
Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police.
He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap?
Compelling and compassionate, this novel follows Mr Burman's journey towards the mystery of a radical act and into the true nature of his own family. It asks what a person leaves behind when they've gone, and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.
James Meek is one of our most consistently brilliant and thought-provoking writers. This is his best novel yet - a dark and unsettling meditation on marriage, fatherhood and architecture. Every page rings with deep truth -- ALEX PRESTON
James Meek is a master of the art of the stealthy narrative, and his keen intelligence and alertness are evident on every page of his new novel as he juxtaposes the ordinary, unsolvable tragedy of one family's life against the greater dilemma of our compromised relationship with the modern world. Reading Your Life After Me is like watching a glass slowly turning to reveal a truth that is at once uncomfortable and heart-breaking -- RUPERT THOMSON
Praise for James Meek: 'A glorious imaginative feat . . . Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel' -- SARAH WATERS on To Calais in Ordinary Time
A story so original and so fully imagined -- HILARY MANTEL on To Calais in Ordinary Time
Be it essay or article, novel or short story, as a writer and time traveller James Meek does things differently and as readers we are all the better for that * * Sunday Times * *
The language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling. And what a narrative! -- PHILIP PULLMAN on The People's Act of Love
The best and most original book that I have read for years -- LOUIS DE BERNIERES on The People's Act of Love
James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo * * Independent * *
ISBN: 9781837262618
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
256 pages
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