I Saw a Man A Novel

After journalist Caroline Marshall is killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, her devastated husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and moves to London to try to build a new life. There, living in a flat on the edge of picturesque Hampstead Heath, he develops a close friendship with the seemingly perfect family next door, Josh and Samantha Nelson and their two young daughters. The connection fosters the beginning of a healing process, which is disrupted when he receives a letter from the conscience-stricken pilot responsible for Caroline’s death. Still reeling from this stirring of his grief, Michael makes a fatal error of judgment that brings a burden of guilt and a shattering secret into his life. As the tragic consequences of Michael’s loss ripple outward, Owen Sheers’s stunning novel propels us to a conclusion that is both profoundly unsettling and deeply moving.

Owen Sheers is an author, poet and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean nonfiction narrative, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Onaadtje prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F, and the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry and Welsh Book of the Year for Pink Mist, which was also a Guardian and Observer top ten of the year theater selection. I Saw A Man was short listed for the Prix Femina Etranger. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. He lives in Wales with his wife and daughter.

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