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Book Synopsis''A compelling tale beautifully told, Mr Mac & Me is as close to a perfect novel as anything I've read in a long time. I loved every page of it'' Ann Patchett
Set on the Suffolk coastline in 1914, a compelling story of an unlikely friendship from the Granta Best of Young British author of Hideous Kinky and The Sea HouseThomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming and the summer visitors.Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks for all the world like a detective, in his black cape and hat of felted wool, and the way he puffs on his pipe as if he's Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him when they whisper about him in the inn. And whisper they do, for he sets off on his walks at unlikely hours, and stops to examine the humb
Trade ReviewA compelling tale beautifully told,
Mr Mac & Me is as close to a perfect novel as anything I’ve read in a long time. I loved every page of it *
Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto *
I was utterly absorbed in the language and the story and the world of it ... You know how it is when a writer draws into a place and you begin to feel it is more substantial than the one around you? That is how this book was for me. I truly loved it *
Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry *
‘I loved and admired
Mr Mac and Me more than I can say’ *
Francis Wyndham *
Attending to Esther Freud's still, truthful voice becomes not only a pleasure but a necessity *
Jonathan Coe *
Freud has a precious and remarkable gift *
The Times *
A superbly gifted writer *
New York Times Book Review *
The best that art can be: full of exploration, full of intuition, full of generosity - and full of love *
Julie Myerson *
