WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD n WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE n LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE n BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 n n Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineers mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. n n Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour. n