The gallopers

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Winner of the Polari Book Prize 2024. From the author of The Whale Tattoo, winner of the Polari First Book Award 2023. The Gallopers received outstanding reviews when it was published in hardback in Jan 2024 . Now in paperback and picked by many to be on the Booker Prize longlist. Three men bound together in a blistering story that spans 30 years

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Winner of the Polari Book Prize 2024. 1953. Eli is nineteen years old and lives alongside a cursed field with his strange aunt Dreama. Six months before, his mother disappeared during the North Sea flood. Unsure of his place in the world and of the man he is becoming, Eli is ready to run. Shane Wright is a man with plenty to hide. Caught in a complicated relationship with Eli, Shane is desperate to maintain the double life that he has created for himself. Then Jimmy Smart appears. Jimmy Smart, the mysterious showman who turns the gallopers at the fair. Under his watchful gaze, Eli discovers a world he knows nothing about with rules he cannot understand.

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

200
Language

English
Edition

Paperback original
Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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