by Keith Ridgway · Granta · tapa dura · ISBN 9781847085269
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«Hawthorn and Child» is the literary fiction novel by Keith Ridgway, published by Granta in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
Two London policemen, Hawthorn and Child, investigate a shooting in north London: the victim insists he was shot by a ghost car and the only witness is unreliable. The case slips out of their hands and the narrative shifts towards other marginal lives in the city, up to the shadow of the elusive criminal magnate Mishazzo.
The cover subtitle is «A set of misunderstandings». The novel was longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2012.
A read for book clubs and for those who appreciate literary fiction with crime elements and a fragmentary structure.
Keith Ridgway is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, the O. Henry Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
