Your Life Without Me

Chewy, stylish and absorbing . . . I was happily pulled along by the book's marvellous intensity. It kept me reading, kept me thinking and kept me entertained -- JOHN SELF * * Times * *
A compelling, compassionate portrait of an English family in flux * * Guardian * *
Unsettling and boasting a haunting twist, this is one of our great prose writers on guilt, complicity and forgiveness * * Observer * *
A beautifully elegant writer . . . This is a novel of ideas . . . big ideas about the conflict between progress and nostalgia [and] our relationship with the past -- STEPHANIE MERRITT * * BBC Radio 4 Front Row * *
A moving and original novel from a writer of real integrity * * Big Issue * *
Such precise observations, along with well-chosen words that deliver a gentle comic twist . . . and lashes of irony . . . are a consistent source of pleasure * * Literary Review * *
Engrossing and compassionate . . . Meek's fine novel is itself a provocation; tragic, humbling and rejuvenating all at once * * Financial Times * *
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 . . . Heart-breaking -- RUPERT THOMSON
Your Life Without Me follows a retired schoolteacher as he tries to discover whether it was his influence that landed a favourite former pupil in prison for a radical act of destruction . . . A novel that is a profound and unsettling take on modern life by a writer at the top of his game -- KIRSTY LANG
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