Reservoir 13: Winner of The 2017 Costa Novel Award

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A new novel from the absurdly gifted Jon McGregor, seven years after the IMPAC-winning Even the Dogs, Reservoir 13 is haunting and heartbreaking, the tale of a disappearance and its aftermath--his best yet." -- The Guardian, "Fiction to look out for in 2017" Even by the standards of his mature work, McGregor's latest novel is a remarkable achievement... Fluid and fastidious, its sparing loveliness feels deeply true to its subject. There are moments, as in life, of miraculous grace, but no more than that... a humane and tender masterpiece." -- Irish Times

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Reverse transcriptase activity in culture supernatants was determined as previously described [43,44]. Reverse transcriptase activity was used to measure the amount of HIV-1 in 10 μl of culture supernatant from activated CD4 + T cells, collected after days 6 and 9 of culture (see Fig. S7 for further details, https://links.lww.com/QAD/C213). Statistical analysis You don’t have to look far for real-life instances of criminals whose crimes went unnoticed and unpunished thanks to their manufactured patina of social respectability. Depressingly, you don’t even have to look far for those people to have come from the medical profession. The complainant in Dr Finch’s case describes him as having “this really calm, quiet way of talking and he just kept telling her what a horrible old bitch she was, what a burden…” She’s easily discredited due to her history of antagonism towards the surgery, but we now know that every word of her complaint would have been true. “Kind and gentle and good” Each tale in this slim, elegant book does something most of us wish would happen to us in real life: It stops us in a humdrum moment and reveals how that small, unnoticed sliver of time can illuminate an entire life . . . Magic." ―Oprah.com, Book of the Week

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This study was approved by the St Vincent's Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC LNR/16/SVH/327) and used standard-of-care samples sent to the NSW State Reference laboratory for HIV, St Vincent's Hospital between 2017 and 2020 for monitoring pVL and CD4 + T-cell counts. Demographics and HIV-1 disease characteristics available from St Vincent's Hospital patient database, are shown in Table S1, https://links.lww.com/QAD/C214. Also, an elite controller study was approved by South Western Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 2020/ETH00235). We defined viral blips as elevated routine patient monitoring pVL between 20 and 200 copies/ml. The median interval between analysis time points for this observational study was 6 months [interquartile range (IQR) = 5–8]. White blood cells (WBCs) were prepared from 6 ml of fresh anticoagulated whole blood in ACD (acid citrate dextrose) tubes, as previously described [37]. DNA and RNA were extracted using the Maxwell RSC automated extraction platform (Promega, Madison, Wisconsin, USA), with the Maxwell RSC Buffy Coat DNA kit (Promega) and Maxwell RSC Simply RNA Tissue kit (Promega), respectively, according to the manufacturer's protocol. WBCs were counted after red blood cell lysis using TC20 Automated Cell Counter (Bio-Rad, Hercules, California, USA), and these counts were used to normalize the HIV-1 DNA and RNA results as copy numbers/10 6 cells. The double-R assay based on πCode End-Point PCR assay This is the first novel that I have read by this author and I loved it. This is less a novel about crime and more a reflective meditation of the flow and rhythms of nature, the lives and actions of characters throughout a period of years. It is a story of ordinariness, the reality of how life is in the country and delivered with understated prose. I could not help but be moved by the narrative and enchanted by the poetic and lyrical writing.

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Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has." --Colum McCann How the villagers cope, muddle though this event, and how it influences the years that follow is what this story is about. It is a lovely, rhythmic, soothing and spellbinding account of the impact it has on individuals over the thirteen plus years that follow, how it casts an essence of her presence, of her being present, brought about by her absence. An anticipation, but also an acceptance, she is part of them, now. She is a part of the village. How life manages to find a way, it just goes on, even when we think it can’t or it won’t. People fall in love, babies are born, crops are planted and crops are gathered, and yet somehow, she is ever-present. Ulrich's description of the experiences of a social historian unravelling primary sources is familiar to me from my own work analyzing sexual misconduct records from Hereford Diocese in the late Middle Ages, and perhaps shaped my reaction to Reservoir 13, which I loved. I don't trust neat beginnings and endings of novels. I am much more comfortable with uncertainty, and with relationships among characters that seem to grow organically. Jon McGregor's approach to this novel is extraordinary. His prose is beautiful, contained, and haunting. Even more impressive is the novel's structure. McGregor gives glimpses, in every chapter, to what is happening in the lives of the villagers and some of their visitors. The reader can trace these developments from chapter to chapter through a careful process of accretion. However, there are holes -- characters enter and exit, sometimes without a clear explanation of what has happened to them. Relationships among characters morph over time. Some characters die, some fight, some fall in love, some change jobs. And around these actions is the progress of a year, as seen in weather, festivals and celebrations, the life cycles of animals, and always the changes of the seasons. Everybo This dark peak hike has to be one of the classic Peak District walks, starting in the lovely Derbyshire village of Castleton, the route takes you up to two iconic Peak District Hills – Mam Tor and Lose Hill.Fiercely intelligent. . . . [An] astonishing new novel . . . strange, daring, and very moving. . . . The book is a rare and dazzling feat of art that also (in my reading of it) outs us, in a gentle way, for a certain gratuitous drama-seeking tendency we all tend to have as readers--a tendency that makes it harder to see the very real, consequential, beautiful, and human-scaled dramas occurring all around is in real life, in every moment (in nature, in human affairs)." -- George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily Absolutely magnificent; one of the most beautiful, affecting novels I've read in years. The prose is alive and ringing. There is so much space and life in every sentence. I don't know how he's done it. It's beautiful." -- Eimear McBride, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing From the beginning, we know that a young girl of 13 goes missing and the village where this occurs is never the same. Each chapter explores yet another year in the life of the village and its people, and for me there was a slow-growing undercurrent of nebulous unease as more and more time passed without her being found.

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The irony arrives in the edit. The very next scene cuts to Hayley Reid’s remains lying in a forensics tent, uncovered after Tim Finch strangled and buried her eighteen years earlier. “This is corked” Fascinating... McGregor is a writer with extraordinary control... Reservoir 13 is an enthralling and brilliant investigation of disturbing elements embedded deeply in our story tradition." -- Tessa Hadley, The Guardian You begin the walk at Redmires Reservoir and make your way across to Rdo Moor, including the trig number one. From here you make your way over to the Ox Stones and trig number two. At midnight when the year turned there were fireworks on the television in the pub and dancing in the street outside. On the subject of discrediting sources, revisiting Derrin’s monologue to DC Jake Collier in the light of the finale revelations is particularly satisfying. Every word she’s telling is clearly the truth: “On the face of it in public you would think he was such a lovely man, wouldn’t you? Kind and gentle and good, a good man, was how people always described him in our village, but behind closed doors, he’s the most manipulative, calculating man I’ve ever met and he made my life a complete misery.” If Derrin had been listened to instead of dismissed as a mad fantasist, Tim’s true nature might have been revealed much sooner. “The most reliable of narrators”