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" hundreds or thousands of miles from home

that color her world

Gerald’s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world

Focused on how to land a full-time position as a writer

A Shock Social Themes " hundreds or thousands ofBy Keith Ridgway Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, its at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. Theyre on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by