Shuttlecock Audiobook

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• 'A superbly written claustrophobic account of power that corrupts private and public life and of guilt that becomes obsession.'

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• 'A small masterpiece.'

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• 'A novel as elegant in construction as in style…Serious, moving and often very funny indeed.'

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• 'An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humour.'

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• 'Thoroughly gripping and beautifully written.'

  — Margaret Forster

• 'Excellent, profound.'

  — Alan Hollinghurst

• 'Swift’s central strength as a writer is his integrity. Story an character are treated with a seriousness and respect that while allowing for the oddity of human behaviour – Shuttlecock is thoroughly and beautifully odd – always honours them.'

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