The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard

The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard

*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018* My younger brothers name is Nicholas Beard.

A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft * Sunday Times *
This captivating book, both heart-rending and jaw-dropping, unfolds like a detective story * Daily Mail *
A touching, painful disquisition on memory and forgetting and the tendrils that tie us to the past -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian *
Clear-eyed, very sad, funny at times and, despite the story it tells, ultimately uplifting in its determination to confront buried truths* Sebastian Faulks *
A masterpiece * Craig Brown *

Richard Beard is the author of Acts of the Assassins which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and most recently, The Day That Went Missing. In the twenty years since his first book he has published critically acclaimed novels and narrative non-fiction, including Becoming Drusilla, the story of how a friendship between two men was changed by a gender transition. He was formerly director of the National Academy of Writing in London, and is now a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and has a Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is an optimistic opening batsman for the Authors Cricket Club.

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ISBN 13	9781784703141
ISBN 10	1784703141
Title	The Day That Went Missing
Author	Richard Beard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2018-03-01
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of PEN/ Ackerley Prize 2018 (UK), Short-listed for The Folio Prize 2018 (UK)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.