A Shock
09 June 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
‘Remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
'Like Finnegans Wake, only readable' - The Times
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 –...
Details
09 June 2022288 pages
9781529064810Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Keith Ridgway offers his London a luminous glow, but his competing narratives are also rooted in a real place, with a remarkable sense of character and the shifting systems that make up his contemporary urban space
Colm Tóibín
Like Finnegans Wake, only readable. The Times
Ingeniously slippery . . . an expertly constructed house of mirrors Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review
A sultry, steamy shock of a novel . . . a provocative collection of nine interlinked stories, jostled together like neighbours on a London street or regulars in a pub, which is where most of his characters cross pathsThe Spectator
