J. A Novel: Howard Jacobson

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren`t sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they`ve been pushed into each other`s arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?

Hanging over their lives is a momentous catastrophe - a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.

Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize.