The Problem Solvers discussion

I read a book once which left me wanting to read it again... It had a leisurely pace, a scant plot and a barely sketched out main character, I hesitate to call him a protagonist... He was far too inert for that. The writing was superb I thought.

The problem is I can't remember the author, the title or much of the plot!! Shocking, I know. I have a feeling it was a first novel by (probably) a British writer and the title was very long... Published probably around 2000...

It was a story of a man who lives with his young daughter somewhere in the suburbs having lost his wife in a house fire (this only becomes apparent towards the end of the book).

If it sounds familiar to anyone please put me out of my misery!!

Joanna

the bone house (cab Bolton #1) ???

Definitely not. the title was rather long, the main character had no unsavoury predilections and his wife never appears in the plot. But thanks for trying :)

i tried lol

Sigh... and move on...

Joanna wrote: "I read a book once which left me wanting to read it again... It had a leisurely pace, a scant plot and a barely sketched out main character, I hesitate to call him a protagonist... He was far too i..."

Can I look it up?

Problem is I don't know the title or the author....

I wish I could help.

A miracle has happened! Standing on a Northern Line platform at Tooting Broadway I happened to glance at a poster... And for apparent reason it made me wonder... could this be the author Whose name eluded me for so long? The poster was for John McGregor’s latest book “The Reservoir Tapes”. Thanks to underground WiFi I got my answer there and then! The book I’ve been trying to excavate from the darkest recesses of my memory is... “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”! Thought I’d share this with you. It’s like scratching the unreachable itch 😄

The above should read: “...for NO apparent reason...”