'Lean Fall Stand is a spectacular book. So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting; such a skillful evocation of our fragility and strength. I read it again, as soon as I'd finished' Maggie O’Farrell 

'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 heart-beat register. The quality of his attention is a flicker of light around the fragile human condition, and it leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel

‘Not Many novels take you from a research station in the depths of the Antarctica to a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside just off the A14. Jon McGregor has crafter a unique narrative, encompassing frozen wastes and altered interior landscapes. The opening section is the gripping piee of writing I’ve read in a long time. Sit. Read. Applaud’ Jarvis Cocker

 ‘A wonderful, gripping novel: horror, heartbreak, hope’ Charlotte Mendelson 

'This is a stunning novel. No-one else can plumb the depths beneath the plain surface of each word like Jon McGregor' Andrew McMillan