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With poignant vulnerability

The Illuminations: A Novel BN_Top_100 His music is a partLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize The Illuminations, the fifth novel from Andrew O'Hagan, a writer "of astonishingly assured gifts" (The New York Times Book Review), is a work of deeply charged beauty and one that demonstrates, with poignancy and power, that no matter how we look at it, there is no such thing as an ordinary life. Anne Quirk's life is built on stories the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to