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Title	:	Eleven
Author	:	Mark Watson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 388 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2010 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Romance

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What a lucky find. I have been to see Mark Watson's stand-up performance before, and really enjoy his sense of humour, but I had no idea he could write as well! And while his stand-up can be quite frenetic at times, his writing (in this case, at least) is very measured and restrained. The comparisons to David Nicholls are spot-on in my opinion - love them both.

Watson's humour and his fondness of Australia shine through, but this is not a comedy. It's almost a parable - a story about action and inaction. Xavier Ireland has run away from his life in Melbourne; away from his family and his tight-knit, friends-since-primary-school little 'gang', to start over in London. There, over the past 5 years, he has become reasonably successful and popular as the host of a radio program on the graveyard shift. During this particular London winter, Xavier's failure to effectively intervene in a bullying incident out on the street, has a knock-on effect for 11 characters.

We don't know why Xavier left Melbourne until well into the second half of the book. When the reason was finally revealed, my heart was in my mouth. I would almost say it had more of an impact than the ending, which left a bit to the reader's imagination.

The beauty of this story is in the detailed characterisation of what might at first appear to be a rather large cast. But that detail makes it easy to keep track of everyone and where they fit in the interconnectedness of all things.

Highly recommended, 4.5★

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Original Title:	Eleven
ISBN:	1847379680 (ISBN13: 9781847379689)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Xavier, Pippa, Murray

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Eleven by Mark Watson Recommended for people who like: Love Actually, Crash, Sleepless in SeattleGenre Tags: Everyone is Connected, People Trying to Find HappinessThe Official Summary: ONE MOMENT... ELEVEN LIVES... ENDLESS CONSEQUENCES (Yup. Thats it. Its ok, Ill fill it in for you)Review: I worry I might be missing something. Several reviews for this book that I have read on GoodReads talk about how hilarious and smartly done it is. I will agree that the writing is well done, but I thought it

I'd never heard of Mark Watson in any context other than stand-up comedy before, even less had I actually ever scene him perform. This book cost me £0.99 and is now back up to a fiver on Kindle. The synopsis sounded interesting, no more than that, so it really was a bit of a whim purchase.Seeing an endorsement for the man by Stephen Fry as soon as you open the book certainly impacts, but the writing is powerful enough to drag you in all by itself. From that opening, that cold, still, snowy



Im always a bit prejudiced when it comes to authors who are already famous for doing other things thinking maybe their writing doesnt have to be as good as an unknown persons would have to be to secure a publishing deal. These fears proved to be out of place here, though, as the writing was superb. And despite being written by a comedian, humour is not its main concern. It has drama, romance, real life, and a fair bit of tragedy. There are funny bits the image of the persons gut imposing

Wasn't sure what to expect from this book, you can never be sure about what tone a 'known' comedian is going to take. As it was, it was an interesting little book, Mark Watson has a nice turn of phrase and his sense of humour shows through in the way he writes.So this is a book about coincidences and degrees of separation. It follows the intersecting lives of eleven people over eleven chapters and the main character is Xavier Ireland (XI.... ok the eleven thing was a bit heavy handed).Xavier is

Yes, this was a good one.....didn't love it, but liked it lots.The main character was a likeable believable guy, and that always helps a story, but what really made it good, was the way the whole thing came together,a knock on effect of one action and how it spread out from one person to the next, causing big waves and minor ripples.The last few pages have a nice unexpected ending, which is all too rare three days.....especially in a book like this, where the future of a lot of the minor

We're all familiar with films such as Short Cuts, Love Actually, or Amorres Perros, or the dreadful Crash, that express a theme using various characters who happen to cross paths and trigger events in the other characters' lives. It's the narrative form of the butterfly effect -- the idea that a small, apparently inconsequential action (or inaction) by one person can trigger a cascade of effects in the lives of countless number of people whom that first person has never met. One of the