The Shock of the Fall
Book Details
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Published : 2014
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 320
- Category :
Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir - Catalogue No : 35653
- ISBN 13 : 9780007491452
- ISBN 10 : 000749145X
About the Author(s)
Nathan Filer is a qualified mental health nurse. The Shock of the Fall, his novel about the life of a young man grieving the loss of his brother, has sold over half a million copies in the UK, was a Sunday Times bestseller and translated into thirty languages. It won The Costa Book of the Year, The Betty Trask Prize, The National Book Award for Popular Fiction and The Writers' Guild Award for Best First Novel. He has written for the Guardian and the New York Times. His BBC radio 4 documentary, The Mind in the Media, which explored portrayals of mental illness in fiction and journalism was shortlisted for a Mind Media Award. He's currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.