Mike McCormack's new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. About Notes from a Coma JJ O' Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds his place in the community. At least until his world is shaken by the death of his best friend, and he volunteers for the "Somnos Project," an experimental program testing deep coma as a potential option...