Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor
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Reservoir 13

Author: Jon McGregor

Narrator: Matt Bates

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2017

Synopsis

In midwinter in an English village, a teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks, and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths, secrets kept and exposed, livelihoods made and lost, small kindnesses, and unanticipated betrayals.An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside.

About Jon McGregor

Jon McGregor is the author of several novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Award, and Somerset Maugham Award, and his work has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters.

About Matt Bates

Matt Bates is a voice actor who can be heard in video games, documentaries, audiobooks, and other media.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug on May 29, 2022

Top 13 Alternate Titles for 'Reservoir 13': 13. Stone Sisters Vs. Millennium Milestones: Discuss 12. The River Rushed Under the Packhorse Bridge, or At the Allotments 11. Cathy & Richard: On Again, Off Again, On Again, Off Again ... 10: A 325 Page Shaggy Dog Story 9. Mundane Minutiae of Village Life 8. He......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on November 17, 2017

This is my kind of book. Slow moving like the surface of an undisturbed river, yet with currents underneath prepared to carry one away, toss a person like dross in its swirling, or pull one into subterranean depths. From the beginning, we know that a young girl of 13 goes missing and the village wher......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on June 19, 2019

”She could have walked high over the moor and stumbled into a flooded clough and sunk cold and deep in the wet peat before the dogs and thermal cameras came anywhere near, her skin tanned leather-brown and soft and her hair coiled neatly around her. She could have fallen anywhere and be lying there......more

Quotes

“One I wish I’d written myself…Its structure, pace, detail, tone, humanity—it’s a quiet masterpiece.” Roddy Doyle, New York Times bestselling author

“Haunting and heartbreaking…His best yet.” Guardian (London)

“A humane and tender masterpiece.” Irish Times (Dublin)

“Bates narrates the story with precisely the English accent one would imagine in this seemingly quaint village. HIs calm, low-key delivery perfectly sets the mood for the story…Bates has narrated the story to mirror McGregor’s vision.” Booklist (audio review)

“Matt Bates…[is] an excellent choice of narrator for an audiobook that explores the minutiae of how people return to daily life after a tragedy has struck…Listeners will hear a tightly controlled, low-voiced portrayal of inexplicable loss. Fans of literary fiction delivered in the style of radio theater will enjoy the experience.” AudioFile

“Novels aspire to be social documents, group portraits, measurers of time, renovators of the ordinary, but few come close to achieving those ambitions. This entrancing book does.” New Yorker

“[A] gesture toward the sweep of history, reminding us that the struggles that seem so momentous to one group of people will someday be forgotten.” New York Times

“A work of intense, forensic noticing: an unobtrusively experimental, thickly atmospheric portrait of the life of a village.” Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil English village that, by the close of the case, doesn’t feel so tranquil anymore.” Washington Post

“Excels at charting how, over the years, relationships fray, snap, or twine together…McGregor again highlights the remarkable in the everyday.” Sunday Times (London)

Awards

  • Man Booker Prize
  • Goldsmiths Prize
  • Amazon Editors' Pick
  • Wall Street Journal Pick
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • Indie Next List
  • Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books
  • Guardian Best Book of the Year
  • New Yorker Best Book
  • Costa Book Award
  • New York Times   Bestseller
  • British Book Award
  • International Dublin Literary Award
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