Reservoir 13: Winner of The 2017 Costa Novel Award

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kSt Vincent's Clinical School, Delacy Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Controlling a situation being paramount to a character like Tim, when he told his wife and daughters that he was being questioned in relation to Hayley Reid’s disappearance, he downplayed everything, shrugging it all off as “pretty tedious”. When his daughter expressed sympathy for Hayley’s parents, Tim agreed, saying “I know, it’s just brutal for them. I can’t even begin to imagine.” That’s the absolute truth. “On an intellectual level I understand the pain I’ve caused,” he later tells the police, but imagining how it feels is entirely beyond him.

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For the full route description, map and useful information, read the route here. Walk route, map + GPX here McGregor's book achieves a visionary power . . . he has written a novel with a quiet but insistently demanding, even experimental form. The word "collage" implies something static and finally fixed, but the beauty of " Reservoir 13" is in fact rhythmic, musical, ceaselessly contrapuntal . . . A remarkable achievement [and a] subtle unravelling of what we think of as the conventional project of the novel." --James Wood, The New Yorker

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Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has." --Colum McCann This study was approved by the St Vincent's Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC LNR/16/SVH/327) and used standard-of-care samples sent to the NSW State Reference laboratory for HIV, St Vincent's Hospital between 2017 and 2020 for monitoring pVL and CD4 + T-cell counts. Demographics and HIV-1 disease characteristics available from St Vincent's Hospital patient database, are shown in Table S1, https://links.lww.com/QAD/C214. Also, an elite controller study was approved by South Western Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 2020/ETH00235). We defined viral blips as elevated routine patient monitoring pVL between 20 and 200 copies/ml. The median interval between analysis time points for this observational study was 6 months [interquartile range (IQR) = 5–8]. White blood cells (WBCs) were prepared from 6 ml of fresh anticoagulated whole blood in ACD (acid citrate dextrose) tubes, as previously described [37]. DNA and RNA were extracted using the Maxwell RSC automated extraction platform (Promega, Madison, Wisconsin, USA), with the Maxwell RSC Buffy Coat DNA kit (Promega) and Maxwell RSC Simply RNA Tissue kit (Promega), respectively, according to the manufacturer's protocol. WBCs were counted after red blood cell lysis using TC20 Automated Cell Counter (Bio-Rad, Hercules, California, USA), and these counts were used to normalize the HIV-1 DNA and RNA results as copy numbers/10 6 cells. The double-R assay based on πCode End-Point PCR assay For 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. Reservoir 13 leaves the reader feeling mesmerised, disconcerted and with senses oddly heightened, as if something had walked over their own grave." -- The Australian iPeter Duncan Neurosciences Unit, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, and University of Notre Dame

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Award-winning Jon McGregor defies expectations with this superbly crafted and mesmerizingly atmospheric portrait of an unnamed village ... Unsentimental and occasionally very funny, this is a haunting, beautiful book." -- Daily Mail Jon McGregor's uncanny stories linger long after you have finished them. He quietly inserts distinct, convincing voices into vivid and compelling landscapes. This original, beautiful, and haunting book totally captivated me." ―Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others and National Book Award Finalist Eat the DocumentWeaving together different characters, interspersing private thoughts with public dramas, fleeting details with life-changing events, McGregor builds an extraordinary collective symphony of community life. It’s the fruition of a project that began with his Booker-longlisted debut, 2002’s If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, which focuses on the inhabitants of a single street over the course of one day, and continued in the Impac-winning Even the Dogs (2010), where the narrative is shared between a group of homeless addicts. “It’s the idea that you have lots of people and they’re individuals but they overlap,” McGregor explains. In Reservoir 13 he uses the passive voice to evoke a communal identity, which encompasses a shared unconscious where the missing girl haunts the villagers’ dreams, and a curtain-twitching nosiness in which everybody knows everybody else’s business. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. 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

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The passive voice was really deliberate because it just feels very English to me,” McGregor says. “It’s a gossipy village, but they would never think of themselves as gossips. ‘Somebody was seen.’ They’re not going to say: ‘I saw so and so.’ Small communities can be very inclusive, but they can also be very claustrophobic.” 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. An ambitious tour de force that demands the reader's attention; those willing to follow along will be rewarded with a singular and haunting story." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the shorter hikes on the list, but since Higher Shelf Stones summit is the third highest point in the Peak District I felt it had to be on the list! The great thing about this walk is that you begin from Snake Pass so for the first part of the hike you don’t have too much ascent.

Absolutely OUTSTANDING . . . Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has . . . an incredible book, I just adored it." --Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let The Great World Spin The second best Peak District hike on the list includes a walk with another scramble section. This hike starts from Ladybower Reservoir and takes you up through the woods to the edge of Alport Moor, making your way towards Alport Castles, a huge landslide which is pretty impressive to see. Through meticulous layering of details and repetition Reservoir 13 marks the turning of the years. Every chapter, each of which takes us one year on, begins in the same way: a sentence noting the fireworks on New Year’s Eve. Yet with a few small changes McGregor shows how life is changing for this community. When called to a hearing by the General Medical Council, Finch’s account of his conduct in the case of the complaint made against him was calmly delivered, professional and detailed. He remained detached and in control, citing medical fact and providing an answer to every question. He made forty-two home visits to the complainant over the course of six years. “I don’t believe I ever lost my temper,” he offered.

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You don’t have to look far for real-life instances of criminals whose crimes went unnoticed and unpunished thanks to their manufactured patina of social respectability. Depressingly, you don’t even have to look far for those people to have come from the medical profession. The complainant in Dr Finch’s case describes him as having “this really calm, quiet way of talking and he just kept telling her what a horrible old bitch she was, what a burden…” She’s easily discredited due to her history of antagonism towards the surgery, but we now know that every word of her complaint would have been true. “Kind and gentle and good” McGregor follows the daily lives of a large set of villagers, watching them deal with small and not-so-small sorrows and disappointments over the course of 13 years. Child pornography; depression; marital discord; examination failures and successes; all human life is recorded in this novel. 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 The Edale Mountain Rescue team (charity ran by volunteers) is one of the busier teams in the country so don’t call them out unnecessarily if you can prevent it :). We will be launching some charity badges soon – register here to receive the early bird discount code.Each tale in this slim, elegant book does something most of us wish would happen to us in real life: It stops us in a humdrum moment and reveals how that small, unnoticed sliver of time can illuminate an entire life . . . Magic." ―Oprah.com, Book of the Week I’ve never read such an extraordinary novel with such insight into the cycles of life of peoples lives and nature’s beauty. Everyone and everything is observed with such exceptional detailed prose. McGregor writes about the landscape, birds, plants, and wildlife through life and death. His unusual structure keeps running on so wonderfully. Time goes on. Life moves on one year to the next. Each year the missing girl is still not found. Each chapter brings us to a different reservoir and gets us closer to Reservoir 13 with a feeling of unease as the book progresses.