Should We Fall Behind
Published on 22. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-1-910422-61-8 (ISBN)
Description
BBC Two Book Club Choice - Between The Covers
Jimmy Noone walks from one side of a sprawling city to the other, looking for Betwa, a friend he found and lost on the bustling city streets. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for lost lives colliding, exposing stories of tenderness, devotion, displacement and tragedy, and the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all, making the invisible, visible again.
Jimmy Noone walks from one side of a sprawling city to the other, looking for Betwa, a friend he found and lost on the bustling city streets. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for lost lives colliding, exposing stories of tenderness, devotion, displacement and tragedy, and the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all, making the invisible, visible again.
Reviews / Votes
'Duggal writes about the devastation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor, and as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry... beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with the hope that can only come from random encounters.' Preti TanejaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hebden Bridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910422-61-8 (9781910422618)
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Person
Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Sharon's debut The Handsworth Times was chosen as a City Reads in 2017 and was The Morning Star Book of The Year.
Content
'At its heart the novel is a spacious, melancholy work, its sorrowful yet hopeful storylines an elegy to time's passing.
'The Guardian'
'The Guardian'