A remarkable reread of small little things

I have just finished the extraordinarily beautiful 'if nobody speaks of remarkable things' by Jon McGregor and have now switched to The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Both are re reads - Sky in 1991 and Remarkable in 2004. And it is astonishing to think of this long passage of time and yet how the years seem to have passed so quickly. I knew I had Remarkable somewhere and I got it into my head that I wanted it to read it - I had recently read Reservoir 13 and The Reservoir Tapes (both by McGregor) - before and after last Christmas and in the end I fished it out from an old suitcase tucked away in the attic where I found it neatly packed away with a little load of other gems from the past including The Waves by Virginia Woolf (another definite must reread - when the time is right). McGregor's debut novel 'if nobody speaks of remarkable things' had stayed with me in my head all these years but it was a bit like a dream that I couldn't quite remember and so it was a real thrill to rediscover this lyrical, visual, tender and utterly spellbinding jewel of a novel. Five stars all the way.