From the beginning, we know that a young girl of 13 goes missing and the village where this occurs is never the same. Each chapter explores yet another year in the life of the village and its people, and for me there was a slow-growing undercurrent of nebulous unease as more and more time passed without her being found. Teal, 2 Redshank, Peregrine Falcon, Raven, 2 Skylark, 2 Redwing, 5 Mistle Thrush, 4 Stonechat, 8 Meadow Pipit

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We’d always recommend you take a paper map + compass ( this one is good), as well as any navigation tools you use on your phone, (we use OS Online mapping tools). Although you can use the online mapping in flight mode to save battery it’s not a guarantee, phones can get wet, cables can break, which can ultimately mean you could get lost.There is no central character”– exactly, and that’s what makes this so special. “The location is a character” is an old cliche that gets trotted out a lot, but it actually fits here… I also loved how the descriptions of nature were not framed in a human’s perception. Most of the nature stuff was things no human witnessed – the bats hibernating, the foxes mating, etc. Goldeneye (female LBC), 3 Goosander (redheads Wigborough Bay), 2 Ruff (Wigborough Bay), Common Tern (LdLHC), 2 Spoonbill (juveniles Wigborough Bay), Marsh Harrier (Wigborough Bay), Raven (LBC)

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor review - The Guardian

If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month.This dark peak hike has to be one of the classic Peak District walks, starting in the lovely Derbyshire village of Castleton, the route takes you up to two iconic Peak District Hills – Mam Tor and Lose Hill. Jon McGregor is a terrifyingly ingenious writer. He brings to his writing not only the gift of seeing and imagining, but the capacity of hypothesizing and hypnotizing. Reservoir 13 allures readers into an engrossing journey only to end within ourselves, where reality is the darkest fairytale." -- Yiyun Li, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life He writes in even, measured sentences that appear purely descriptive, detailing the progress of the natural world with the same attention he gives to the lives of the villagers. Yet the simplicity can be deceptive; McGregor is a writer of great compassion and insight who can convey a character’s heartache or loneliness in a few brief lines. There are moments of tenderness and others of unexpected, snort-aloud comedy. If aloneness is inevitable, I want to believe that aloneness is what I have desired because it is happiness itself."

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It is all so fine that I eventually came to view the book as a piece of music containing repeated notes: Derwent Edge hike is a great route to see beautiful views of the Peak District and in the late summer months, much of the edge is covered in beautiful purple heather making for a very different view. At midnight when the year turned there were fireworks on the television in the pub and dancing in the street outside.

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He felt as though he were holding the three of them, holding this room, this house. They made him feel at once immensely capable and immensely not up to the task.” Reservoir 13 is, quite simply, an extraordinary novel. It gives an innovative twist to the device of a missing girl; has a meticulously plotted structure and a mesmeric poetic style of writing. Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 [is] filled with things I wish I'd written; not mere cleverness, but cool and capacious intelligence." -- Teju Cole, Faber Social

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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. . . . McGregor's writing style is ingenious." -- Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post These stories by Jon McGregor feel as if they are made half of words and half of the earth. They are elegant, understated, sometimes wry, and yet full of the drama and passion of life." ―Matthew Sharpe, author of You Were WrongFor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. I began Lean Fall Stand hoping I’d experience again the inventiveness and lyricism I’d enjoyed in Jon McGregor’s previous novel Reservoir 13. His latest book turned out to be sublime: a tale of loss and survival that reveals both the power and the limitations of language. Where Reservoir 13 explored the effects of a tragedy… The book is considered a mystery of sorts as it starts with a 13 year old girl going missing when vacationing in an English village with her family. The author describes the continuation of life as the seasons change with the village events of one year for each of the books chapters.