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By: Howard Jacobson
Narrated by: Colin Mace, Adjoa Andoh, Various
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Two people fall in love. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her.

Hanging over the lives of everyone is a past event shrouded in suspicion, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.

©2014 Howard Jacobson (P)2014 W.F. Howes Ltd Dystopian Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction

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Howard Jacobson won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question.
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Maybe I’m not educated enough or savvy enough but I just didn’t care or wanted to continue to read : listen to this book.i fell asleep on many occasions before i gave up

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