Lean Fall Stand

Reviews / Votes

Praise for Lean Fall Stand:



'Gripping, moving, magnificent' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire


'Jon McGregor has crafted a unique narrative, encompassing frozen wastes & altered interior landscapes. The most gripping piece of writing I've read in a long time: Sit. Read. Applaud' Jarvis Cocker


'Utterly original. Jaw-dropping. The sort of book you'll think about for ages' Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the Train


'Another McGregor novel that, beneath its serene surface, takes huge risks ... Fortunately, it's also another McGregor novel that triumphantly gets away with it' The Times


'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' Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light


'A spectacular book ... It does what Jon McGregor does so well: examine the widening ripples of a single event. I read it again, as soon as I'd finished'
Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet


'Opens as excitingly as any work of fiction I've recently read ... It's extraordinarily tense and atmospheric - and McGregor's prose is tight as a wire' Telegraph


'Exceptional. ... So moving, and the use of language is remarkable. I absolutely loved it' David Nicholls, author of Sweet Sorrow


'A genuinely fascinating book and a troubling, riveting reading experience. A bold and masterful investigation into the weather system of the human mind' Max Porter, author of The Death of Francis Bacon


'A genuine masterpiece: poised, multilayered and full of the most astonishingly beautiful prose' Alex Preston, Observer


'McGregor's precise, well-judged prose attests to both the power of language and to the havoc created by its loss' Financial Times