FitThis 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

The muleteer’s daughter was ultimately more difficult to leave than the city girlfriend

Nor is that ‘life’

well-wrought characters that suck the reader into their simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking lives

managers with their ‘Moray eel smiles’ and the alien rich who think that the world belongs to them

full of compassion

Ruth Valentine has worked as an undertaker and as a celebrant at secular funerals

A thrilling third collection from the author of Jerwood Award winning novel Significance

Rose Ausländer

reflects on life from his own backyard

The Meaning of Flight (Seren

the other a humble doctor

the better part of us