IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS

Jon McGregor's award-winning first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in a street in a town in the North of England, building up an unforgettable human panorama. Ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for ever.