The Shock of the Fall

Author: Filer, Nathan

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 June 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
198 x 128 x 28 | 284g

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013

WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014

WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014

'Dark, touching, sweet and funny and beautifully written' Jo Brand

'Deeply moving' The Times

'Bittersweet and wonderfully etched' Telegraph

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.

Brave and groundbreaking, The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of a young man's descent into mental illness.