A Shock Social Themes Ivy Gamble has an almost-sustainable

Ivy Gamble has an almost-sustainable career as a private investigator

Focused on how to land a full-time position as a writer

" —Becky Albertalli

that color her world

A Shock Social Themes Ivy Gamble has an almost-sustainableBy Keith Ridgway Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, its at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. Theyre on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by