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Shuttlecock

by Graham Swift · 1981

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Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels unsettled as his boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiswar and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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