- Published: 24 March 2022
- ISBN: 9780241524749
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Exactly What You Mean
The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
- Published: 24 March 2022
- ISBN: 9780241524749
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Ben Hinshaw renders ordinary human agonies with extraordinary precision and emotional insight . . . This book is a riveting and beautifully patterned map of the emotional archipelago of longing and learning, loving and leaving
Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Ben Hinshaw offers wit, sensitivity and sharp observation . . . the intricate, braided storylines, sustained with energy and relish. It is entertaining, and something more - truly involving
Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
Virtuosity of technique accompanies keenness of insight and depth of characterisation . . . Hinshaw's impressively accomplished debut puts him in [Tim Winton and Jennifer Egan's] company
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
Such an incredibly clever idea this, a set of interlinked stories in which people who appear in one turn up in another . . there's a regretful, wistful atmosphere that's compelling.
Daily Mail
A surprising and enjoyable read . . . this novel without guardrails stands as a brave debut
The Times
A poignant demonstration of the way the past is still folded into the present
FT