A dizzying and quietly surreal novel of South London life narrated through an interlinked series of episodic character studies. Ridgway’s neo-Beckettian prose is never less than needle sharp as he shows us the comic mysteries and small epiphanies which can be found amid the sprawl and anonymity of urban existence.
A Shock
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