Fit - Paperback

by Sammy Wright (Author)

Winner of the 2020 Northern Book Prize

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.

Author Biography

Sammy
Wright is a high school teacher and administrator. He was brought up in
Scotland, worked in London for twelve years, and now lives in north England. He
has served on the Social Mobility Commission and is currently vice principal
at the Southmoor Academy, a public school near Newcastle. 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.