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Question 7

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Question 7

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**WINNER of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.

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 when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.

At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times

'There’s so much . . . in Flanagan’s beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir . . . That it is a masterpiece is without question' Observer

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'This book took me completely by surprise and is unlike anything I’ve read this year. Gripping, affecting, wholly original. I absolutely loved it'
A work of non-fiction…but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel… Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be
'Irresistible. . . . What Flanagan achieves so well is locating what is intimately human within his grand sweep. . . . The attention he pays is tender without ever sacrificing the sharpness of his gaze'
‘Question 7 is the greatest memoir of parents and place I have read - and this is hardly to touch on its originality. I was amazed by its intense moral and emotional rigour, its power of compassion, the strength and beauty of the prose. I would take it up, read a page, sometimes just a paragraph, and find I had to set it down, dazed, to think about every word and idea before I could even begin to go on. Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’
'We believe we make choices in our lives, yet what explodes in these pages is the way in which the fiercest and strongest response we can make to the forces that threaten to destroy us is to surrender to love'
There’s so much…in Flanagan’s beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir… That it is a masterpiece is without question
'Question 7 is written with a spectacular mixture of fierce energy and then control, care. It is a kind of reckoning, Richard Flanagan with his father and his mother, Tasmania with its past, Japan with its past, the author with himself. It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me'
Excellent…Flanagan is unfailingly good company
'Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jig-saw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to HG Wells, and the Martians colonise Tasmania. We are all competitive, of course, so this is not an easy thing to say: but Question 7 may just be the most significant work of Australian art in the last 100 years'
Flanagan’s portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas­mania is masterful… Flanagan is unfailingly good company
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This is not like anything I’ve ever read or listened to before. It’s not a novel but a series of reflections by the author on his own and his family’s lives, intertwined with related stories of the Second World War and the history of the atom bomb. I found it completely gripping and listened to the whole thing over a weekend. It’s an extremely personal tale and having the author’s own voice on audible seems completely right - I can’t really imagine it being narrated by anyone else. A truly incredible book.

Thought-provoking and staggeringly beautiful.

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The narration is mesmerising, the structure is wonderful. Lots of ideas and subjects that are threaded together in an empowering and interesting way. I love the honesty and consideration of this writer, thank you for an excellent listen.

Astonishing and wonderful

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Deserves a listen. A review by me wouldn’t do it justice. Tasmania and Oxford nailed?

Thoughtful, thought-provoking, stimulating read

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This book told us about the lives and context of a number of different people from different backgrounds, and drew these threads together until they focussed on the author. So many different stories that provoked thought and reflection. I really enjoyed it.

Heartfelt, varied, interesting and honest

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Possibly the finest book I've ever read and ever had read to me. I can't begin to describe the links in Flanagan's chain reaction of narratives, but it's all mesmerisingly set out in such simple yet breathtakingly beautiful language that we are held on a journey of wonder all the way through. Cannot recommend this book highly enough and his reading of it is impeccable.

An astonishing and beautiful book

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