A Shock

Set in Camberwell, London, A Shock by Keith Ridgway is a collection of inter-connected short stories usually involving people from the LGBT community. Most of the stories appear to be independent but characters from different stories appear throughout the book and often reveal part of a previous story from a different perspective. The Party and The Song are two such examples. The interwoven stories form a novel. This book won the 2022 James Tait Black Award for Fiction.