This Isn t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You A man builds a tree house by a river in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar beet crashes through a young woman s windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake

A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar beet crashes through a young woman s windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter planes fly low overhead and prepare for war.These aren t the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you But somA man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar beet crashes through a young woman s windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter planes fly low overhead and prepare for war.These aren t the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you But sometimes they do.Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard won.Watch Jon McGregor reading from This Isn t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like YouJon McGregor discusses This Isn t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
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Jon McGregor is a British author who has written three novels His first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, and was the winner of both the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003 So Many Ways to Begin was published in 2006 and was on the Booker prize long list Even the Dogs was published in 2010 and his newest work, Reservoir 13 is due in April, 2017.