Should We Fall Behind

Name: Should We Fall Behind
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Sharon Duggal
ISBN: 9781915693242

Author: Sharon Duggal

Narrator: Antonio Aakeel

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Canopy Limited

Published: 12/16/2024

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Should We Fall Behind. Should We Fall Behind is about the passing of time and the intricate weaves of joy and suffering, love. Jimmy Noone escapes his difficult life in a small town and finds himself living on the streets of a big city where he meets Betwa, who brings with her a chance of real friendship and a glimpse of new hope. Betwa disappears and Jimmy walks across the sprawling metropolis searching for her. He arrives on Shifnal Road on the other side of the river where people from all over the world live side by side yet some inhabitants are so isolated they seem to have disappeared altogether. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for their lives colliding. Journeys to the street and to the city are retraced, so too are stories abundant with lost dreams, unrivalled friendship, profound love and stifling grief, each underpinned with the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all. Should We Fall Behind is about the passing of time, and the intricate weaves of joy and suffering, love and loss which shape human life along the way. It is about the people who have somehow become invisible, and how their stories make them visible once more. A BBC 2 Between The Covers Book Club Choice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellie on October 12, 2020

I need to begin by talking about Duggal’s prose. From the first page, I was mesmerised by the beauty of the writing, the crystalline precision of the carefully wrought sentences, as if each word had been painstakingly carved out of ice or glass. It is a wonderful, freeing feeling as a reader to sens......more

Goodreads review by Robert on December 13, 2022

Bluemoose is publisher who have a knack of choosing the right stories. To date I have never ever been disappointed by book from their stable. Should we Fall behind is no exception to the rule. The novel has elements that I love, mainly a set of character who are united by one event or one person. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Jason on September 13, 2020

I knew from the title and the cover that this story was going to be heart-breaking, and yet I was still unprepared by just how hard it would hit me, so much grief and that small chance of hope left a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach. Duggal has got some amazing characters here, they are the so......more

Goodreads review by Jules on October 12, 2020

This is an absolutely brilliant book about humanity & what shapes us. Numerous characters show their personalities in different ways, and we learn how who they are has been shaped by their upbringing, mainly in relation to family, loss & grief. It is beautifully written & Sharon Duggal is so good at......more

Goodreads review by Chloe on April 15, 2021

The ambition and scope of this book should be commended, but the execution wasn’t there for me. I think that the dialogue was inauthentic (and, at times, insulting) and the relationships cloying. The diverse cast of characters felt forced and tokenistic, and while there were moving moments, the book......more