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Fit Sammy Wright

Fit By Sammy Wright

Fit by Sammy Wright


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Summary

This cutting but compassionate debut novel charts a young girl's rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city.

Fit Summary

Fit by Sammy Wright

This 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 can echo through a life . . . even after you think you've gotten your fairy-tale ending. Fit was the winner, by unanimous decision, of the 2020 Northern Book Prize.

Fit Reviews

Tender, tough, plainspoken and powerful, Sammy Wright's Fit is a nimble debut from a strong and wise new voice in British fiction. We were impressed by the vivid physicality of its setting and characters, by its simple yet arresting dialogue, by its dry and under- stated wit, and perhaps most by the sheer memorability of the thing: its portrait of teenage life and foster care in a marginalised Northern town remained with all of us long after we'd read it. - Jury for the 2020 Northern Book Prize

About Sammy Wright

Sammy Wright is a teacher. He was brought up in Edinburgh, worked in London for twelve years, and now lives in Newcastle. He is a member of the Social Mobility Commission and is currently vice principal of a large secondary school in Sunderland. His short stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and his novel Fit, which won the 2020 Northern Book Prize, is his first book-length publication.

Additional information

GOR011973790
9781913505127
191350512X
Fit by Sammy Wright
Used - Very Good
Paperback
And Other Stories
2021-10-21
240
N/A
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Customer Reviews - Fit