Supporting Cast

byKit de Waal

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Will Carol, recovering from a psychological breakdown, be able to find the child who was taken from her?

After years in prison, how will the newly emancipated Byron find his way home?

Supporting Cast is the follow-up to Kit de Waal's highly acclaimed novels My Name is Leon and The Trick to Time. We revisit the characters in stories of loss, love and regret, following the spiky Sylvia as she files for divorce from her alcoholic husband; a married woman who confesses her secret love for another man; and a blind man raise a toast at his wedding.

This is a deft, compassionate, humane, expansive collection that follows several generations of interconnected lives. Written with the power and precision of some of the greatest short story writers, Supporting Cast is a fearless and hopeful portrait of contemporary Britain.
Kit de Waal has written? a book that is absolutely right for the summer of 2020 . . . This is a book you could read on a journey, on a beach, in a single sitting between dinner and bedtime. And afterwards feel more connected to the world... It's a treat for her many existing fans - but new readers can very much start here
Financial Times

About Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah is shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working class memoir, Common People, which was published in 2018. Kit was named the FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241973431
  • Length: 2 pages
  • Price: £4.99
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