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A haunting novel about the ones we love and the secrets they keep, by the acclaimed author of The Breaking of Eggs and Trading Futures.

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How much do we know about the people we love? And would you want to know the truth?

´An engrossing read´ Sunday Times

There´s a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you´re coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren´t many secrets left between them. Couples often say that, don´t they? But it´s not always true.

Arlene appeared in the bar one day, hoping that she´d find a man called Jack. Franky came back to town soon after, hoping that people might have forgotten the mess he´d left behind him the first time around. Franky´s problem had always been women. Women and money. What Arlene´s problem is isn´t clear. It´s obvious she has a history, but who doesn´t?

As Arlene gets closer to finding Jack - her father? her lover? - the bar becomes the scene of a great unravelling. In Jim Powell´s Things We Nearly Knew, secrets buried a lifetime ago are dragged into the light.

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The plot is expertly spun out . . . an engrossing read. Sunday Times

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Powell, Jim
Jim Powell was born in London in 1949. He is the author of The Breaking of Eggs, Trading Futures and Things We Nearly Knew, and was named by BBC2´s ´The Culture Show´ among ´12 of The Best New Novelists´ in 2011. He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Liverpool and, with his wife Kay, divides his time between Cambridgeshire, England, and the Tarn, France.

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