Fit

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This powerful, tender debut novel tells the story of the complicated fallout when a girl is plucked from her foster home into a dazzling new life in London as a model. A biting look at the realities of the comforting Cinderella stories we tell ourselves, ‘Fit’ follows its characters, young and old, as they attempt to follow the harsh rules of a stratified world. The book is set in contemporary Britain where children starve and the gulf between rich and poor is vast. Moving, tragic, but ultimately hopeful, ‘Fit’ takes an unflinching look at life in foster care and the ways in which poverty and neglect can echo throughout a life.

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 280 g
Dimensions 12.8 × 19.8 × 2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

224
Language

English
Edition

Paperback original
Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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