A Shock by Keith Ridgway

A Shock by Keith RidgwayIn 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,

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She later settled in Manhattan and joined the staff of The New Yorker

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