- Published: 14 July 2023
- ISBN: 9780241524732
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $26.00
Exactly What You Mean
The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
- Published: 14 July 2023
- ISBN: 9780241524732
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $26.00
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
A splendid debut. The stories are sharp, subtle, richly coloured and the world they deliver delightfully surprising. Read this book
Lynn Freed, author of The Romance of Elsewhere
Full of precise moments of humanity. So finely observed, funny and touching
Alex Hyde, author of Violets
Terrific. I really enjoyed it
Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously and co-host of Backlisted
The calm, clear and intelligent prose belies the tortured emotional currents just below the surface. Sophisticated and ambitious
Samantha Dunn, author of Failing Paris