A brilliant first novel set in the 1970s
Kitty Aldridge was born in the Middle East but grew up in England. A graduate of the Drama Centre, London, she has since worked in theatre, film, and television as an actress and writer. Her first novel, Pop (Cape, 2001), was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, Cryers Hill, was published by Cape in 2007. Her short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize 2011 (Bridport Prize Anthology 2011). Her most recent novel is the critically-acclaimed A Trick I Learned From Dead Men.
Pop is an unforgettable creation... By some distance the most
eloquent first novel I have read this century...If literary London
can lionise Zadie Smith, it should pay Kitty Aldridge the same
compliment. She has star quality
*Sunday Telegraph*
An authentic, gentle and genuinely funny account of ordinary
life... This novel is at once life-affirming and important
*Independent on Sunday*
Aldridge combines rich, poetic prose with an impressively light
touch
*Guardian*
A moving story, told with wit and invention, and the language
shimmers in the heat-haze of sadness and loss. A truly original
first novel
*Daily Mail*
Kitty Aldridge is a real discovery, a writer of precision, delicacy
and wit, and her first novel is a rare delight
*Salman Rushdie*
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