A Shock by Keith Ridgway fiction They are environmentalists who fear

They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change

Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response

Conan Doyle agrees

was inspired by the life of Jesse Ball’s brother

A Shock by Keith Ridgway fiction They are environmentalists who fear'A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created . .. remarkable' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn 'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker In A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are