‘Extraordinary’ Daily Mail ‘Subtle, clever and affecting’ Independent on Sunday ‘A homage to ordinary people and ordinary things, to the parts of our lives that often go unspoken … moving and honest’ The Times ‘A book about the search for greater meaning in the strange dance of chance’ Independent ‘McGregor’s meticulous syntax melts into a hot flood of words … An intimate tale with penetrating things to say about the wider history of twentieth-century Britain’ Sunday Times ‘An absorbing and unexpectedly uplifting novel … It will leave you thinking long after you have put the book away on the shelf’ Irish Independent ‘A close reading of ordinary lives … tender and oftenbeautifully poetic’ Stephanie Merritt, Observer ‘Both compelling and convincing. A deeply rewarding read, serious and often beautiful’ Good Book Guide ‘McGregor is a brilliant prose stylist, and here he excels atmaking the provincial and the ordinary seem extraordinary’ Sunday Times ‘This is a wonderful novel; low-key but beautifully paced,scattered with extraordinarily intense moments’ Independent on Sunday ‘This is an unforgettable novel' Daily Telegraph

• The critically acclaimed novel from Jon McGregor. Longlisted for the Man Boooker Prize. • So Many Ways to Begin has a lifetime TCM of 47k. With this new reissue, jacketed in the same style as Jon’s first novel for 4th Estate, Reservoir 13, we hope to introduce Jon to a new generation of readers. • We are simultaneously reissuing Jon’s other books, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (225k TCM), Even the Dogs (30k TCM), and This isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You (9k).. • Jon’s magnificent first novel for 4th Estate, Reservoir 13, will be published 6th April 2017. Competition: The Stopped Heart; The Gustav Sonata; Olive Kitteridge. Julie Myerson;Rose Tremain; Elizabeth Strout;