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2005 Nominated

Something Might Happen

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn’t, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the type to have something happen to her. Something Might Happen is not a murder mystery.
There are clues, false trails, detectives, all the paraphernalia of the whodunit, but Myerson’s concern is with the effect of the murder on an ordinary community and specifically on Tess herself, her husband Mick and her three children. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess’s world of nappies, school runs and baked beans begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble and places that once were safe are safe no longer.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Julie
Myerson

Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960 to a very young mother and a father who worked in ladies’ underwear. Educated at Nottingham High School for Girls and Bristol University, she spent a year in Florence before working in the press office of the National Theatre, where she met her future partner, the playwright and novelist, Jonathan Myerson. She is the author of three previous novels, ‘Sleepwalking’, ‘The Touch’ and ‘Me and the Fat Man’.

Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960 to a very young mother and a father who worked in ladies’ underwear. Educated at Nottingham High School for Girls and Bristol University, she spent a year in Florence before working in the press office of the National Theatre, where she met her future partner, the playwright and novelist, Jonathan Myerson. She is the author of three previous novels, ‘Sleepwalking’, ‘The Touch’ and ‘Me and the Fat Man’.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
22/11/2024
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

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