Lean, Fall, Stand by Jon McGregor 

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Lean, Fall, Stand by Jon McGregor: 1: Storm

Lean, Fall, Stand by Jon McGregor

1: Storm

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The electrifying new novel from Jon McGregor following an Antarctic expedition gone wrong.

Indira Varma reads the gripping new novel from Costa award-winning Jon McGregor, following the fallout from a disastrous Antarctic expedition.

Indira Varma reads the electrifying and heart-rending new novel from the Costa award-winning, and three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes horrifically wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home.

Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While his wife navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Episode 1: as a storm hits suddenly, three Antarctic researchers find themselves separated....

'Lean Fall Stand is a beautiful piece of work and should win a roomful of prizes. Jon McGregor writes plainly and exactly, like a poet, and the precision of his writing makes every heartbeat register. The quality of his attention is a flicker of light around the fragile human condition, and it leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story,' Hilary Mantel

Author:  Jon McGregor is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer, who has been longlisted for the Booker Prize three times, and won the 2017 Costa Award.
Reader: Indira Varma
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Katrin Williams

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