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A Shock

Keith Ridgway

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A Shock won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022. In A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the fringes of London life, often clinging on – to sanity, solvency or a story – by their fingertips. With this deftly conjured high-wire act, Ridgway achieves a fine balance between drama and fidelity to his characters. The result is pin-sharp and breathtaking.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Year
2021
ISBN-13
9781529064827
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Urban lifeInterconnected livesMarginalized communitiesLondon societyIdentity and survival

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