- Title:
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A Shock
- Written by:
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Keith Ridgway
- Read by:
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Harry Myers
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours
- Published:
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September 01 2021
- Available Date:
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September 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867556015
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary; Humorous Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Award winning author
A Shock is a new title from the award-winning author, Keith Ridgway.
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 or solvency or a story – by their fingertips.
Keith Ridgway, author of the acclaimed Hawthorn & Child, writes about people whose understanding of their own situation is only ever partial and fuzzy, who are consumed by emotions and anxieties and narratives, or the lack thereof, that they cannot master. He focuses on peripheral figures who mean well and to whom things happen, and happen confusingly, and his fictional strategies reflect this focus. In a deftly conjured high-wire act, Ridgway achieves the fine balance between the imperatives of drama and fidelity to his characters. The result is pin-sharp and often breathtaking.
'A Shock is a perfect, living circle of beauty and mystery; clear-sighted and compassionate, and, at times, wonderfully funny.'
David Hayden
'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling'
June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker
'A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created ... remarkable'
Colm Tóibín
'Simply imagine being as good at anything as Keith Ridgway is at writing.'
Nicole Flattery
'A great and generous book, an incomparable achievement.'
Richard Beard