The Shock of the Fall: A new Borough Edition of the Costa award-winning novel - Softcover

Filer, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008683573 ISBN 13: 9780008683573

Publisher: The Borough Press, 2024

Synopsis

A new Borough Edition of the Costa award-winning novel

About this title

About the Author

Nathan Filer is a registered mental health nurse. He is also a performance poet, contributing regularly to literary events across the UK. His work has been broadcast on television and radio. The Shock of the Fall is his first novel.

From the Back Cover

A new edition with an introduction by max porter.

'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.'

There are books you can't stop reading, which keep you up all night.

There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life and make them vividly real.

There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days.

The Shock of the Fall is all of these books.

The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of a young man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.

‘A stunning novel. Ambitious and exquisitely realised, it's by turns shocking, harrowing and heartrending. The writing is so accomplished it's hard to believe it's a debut – it's clearly the work of a major new talent' S J WATSON

‘Nathan Filer is following in the footsteps of Mark Haddon’s genre-setting The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. Both funny and painful… you’re going to love it’ DAILY MAIL

‘Bittersweet and wonderfully etched…perceptive and moving’ TELEGRAPH

‘A deeply moving (but also funny) first novel’ KATE SAUNDERS, THE TIMES

‘A compelling story of grief, madness and loss. Filer has an ear for the dark comedy of life, and Matthew is a charismatic lead character who draws you in even as his world falls apart’ OBSERVER MAGAZINE

Edition details

• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008683573
• ISBN 13: 9780008683573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320