Your Life Without Me by James Meek
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 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 * *
James Meek is the author of seven novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction, including Private Island which won the 2015 Orwell Prize. In 2020, To Calais, In Ordinary Time was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781837262618 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837262616 |
| Title | Your Life Without Me |
| Author | James Meek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2026-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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