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**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

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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize**

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…

‘The strangest and most beautiful memoir I’ve ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton

‘Flanagan’s finest book. A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence’ Guardian

‘Flanagan’s portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite…masterful’ Daily Telegraph

‘Intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder

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