Overview
This cutting but compassionate debut novel charts a young girl's rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city.
Winner of the 2020 Northern Book Prize
This is the
first novel by Sammy Wright, a secondary-school teacher with first-hand
experience of a contemporary Britain in which children starve and the gulf
between rich and poor is vast and growing. Charting the impact on a small
community of a girl being plucked by happenstance from her foster home and
dropped into a dazzling new life as a London model, Fit is a moving,
tragic, but ultimately hopeful look at the ways in which poverty and neglect
can echo through a life . . . even after you think you’ve gotten your fairy-tale
ending.
Fit was the winner, by unanimous decision, of the 2020 Northern Book Prize.
- | Author: Sammy Wright
- | Publisher: And Other Stories
- | Publication Date: Oct 21, 2021
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781913505127
- | ISBN-10: 191350512X