The brilliant new novel from the Booker prize-winning author

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They arent sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether theyve been pushed into each others arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?

Hanging over their lives is a momentous catastrophe a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.

Set in the future a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited Jis a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize

Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize

A life-changing novel by one of Britain's greatest novelists, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize

Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize