Question 7

By Richard Flanagan

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024

From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize

‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry
‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín
‘Wholly original. I absolutely loved it’ David Nicholls
‘A brilliant, brilliant book’ James Rebanks

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die…