I Saw a Man: A Novel
After journalist Caroline Marshall is killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, her devastated husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and moves to London to try to build a new life. There, living in a flat on the edge of picturesque Hampstead Heath, he develops a close friendship with the...
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After journalist Caroline Marshall is killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, her devastated husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and moves to London to try to build a new life. There, living in a flat on the edge of picturesque Hampstead Heath, he develops a close friendship with the seemingly perfect family next door, Josh and Samantha Nelson and their two young daughters. The connection fosters the beginning of a healing process, which is disrupted when he receives a letter from the conscience-stricken pilot responsible for Caroline’s death. Still reeling from this stirring of his grief, Michael makes a fatal error of judgment that brings a burden of guilt and a shattering secret into his life. As the tragic consequences of Michael’s loss ripple outward, Owen Sheers’s stunning novel propels us to a conclusion that is both profoundly unsettling and deeply moving.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780307455987 (030745598X)
ASIN: 030745598X
Publish date: 2016-07-12
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
bookshelves: radio-4, summer-2015, published-2014 Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 29 to June 13, 2015 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wxx76Description: "The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June...