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Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. In 2007 he co-founded the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. He is the author of Incredible Bodies and the 2016 Man Booker-longlisted novel, The North Water, for which he won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. The Abstainer is his third novel.

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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (September 25, 2025)
  • Length: 400 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781398505032

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