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Faber & Faber
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571216048
RRP: £8.99
PAGES: 288
PUBLICATION DATE: April 5, 2007

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Be Near Me

By (author) Andrew O'Hagan

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now. When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep…

Reviews of Be Near Me

"'One of the few truly essential works of fiction to emerge from this country during the past 20 years or more.' John Burnside, Daily Telegraph"

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Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His debut novel, Our Fathers, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in London.