{"product_id":"question-7-the-extraordinary-and-original-sunday-times-bestseller","title":"Question 7: The extraordinary and original Sunday Times bestseller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has \u003cb\u003eall the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003esets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's \u003cb\u003ebeautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eThat it is a masterpiece is without question\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, \u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it' Sarah Perry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' Laura Cumming\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down' Mark Haddon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Richard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/richard-flanagan-books\"\u003eRichard Flanagan\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781784745677\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £1.50","offer_id":47917039583409,"sku":"SB-1784745677-C2","price":1.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47917039616177,"sku":"SB-1784745677-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1784745677.jpg?v=1789530568","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/question-7-the-extraordinary-and-original-sunday-times-bestseller","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}