Shock, A [electronic resource]

Keith Ridgway2021

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" 'A Shock is a perfect, living circle of beauty and mystery; clear-sighted and compassionate, and, at times, wonderfully funny' - David Hayden Ten years ago, Keith Ridgway wrote his landmark work Hawthorn & Child, which became a cult novel with a cohort of eminent, noteworthy fans (Scarlett Thomas in the Guardian was 'completely thrilled by the audaciously deceptive simplicity of Ridgway's writing'). Those fans have yearned for more from Ridgway in the long years since, have been disheartened when he intimated he had turned his back on fiction, only to wake up now with a start at the news that, out of the blue, he has produced a work at least as involving, clear-eyed and unsettling as Hawthorn & Child. His new novel, A Shock, is his seventh book. It features interlocking stories through which 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 solv...