✎ The Shock of the Fall By Nathan Filer [Hardcover] ✎

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The Author of this Novel Nathan Filer is a registered mental health nurse, a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

He has worked as a researcher in the academic unit of psychiatry at the University of Bristol and as a mental health nurse on in-patient wards.

He is also a performance poet, contributing regularly to literary events across the UK. His work has been broadcast on television and radio. The Shock of the Fall is his first novel.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (9 May 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007491433
ISBN-13: 978-0007491438
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars (279 reviews)
Bestsellers Rank: 80,254 in Books

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the girl and her doll

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I should say that I am not a nice person. Sometimes I try to be, but often I'm not. So when it was my turn to cover my eyes and count to a hundred - I cheated.

I stood at the spot where you had to stand when it was your turn to count, which was beside the recycling bins, next to the shop selling disposable barbecues and spare tent pegs. And near to there is a small patch of overgrown grass, tucked away behind a water tap.

Except I don't remember standing there. Not really. You don't always remember the details like that, do you? You don't remember if you were beside the recycling bins, or further up the path near the shower blocks, and whether actually the water tap is up there?

I can't now hear the manic cry of seagulls, or taste the salt in the air. I don't feel the heat of the afternoon sun making me sweat beneath a clean white dressing on my knee, or the itching of suncream in the cracks of my scabs. I can't make myself relive the vague sensation of having been abandoned. And neither - for what it's worth - do I actually remember deciding to cheat, and open my eyes.

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She looked about my age, with red hair and a face flecked in hundreds of freckles. Her cream dress was dusty around the hem of kneeling on the ground, and clutched to her chest was a small cloth doll, with a smudged pink face, brown woollen hair, and eyes made of shining black buttons...

Some of the reviews from people

"I've just finished reading part of Matt's story that he's shared with me in The Shock of the Fall and I find myself actually worrying about what life will be like for him from now on. Poignant, heart rending, but at the same time amusing - a total one-off. The author was never present - it was Matt running the show from start to finish. Amazing."


"The book takes you into Matthews world... Which is heartbroken, lost, confused, and much more...
Feeling Matthews life throughout the book, the journey, Simon, the story is incredible."





"A beautiful and tender book, wrestling with very hard truths. I congratulate the author on the superb way he depicts the inner turmoil of a little boy, who already has the seeds of mental fragility embedded. Schizophrenia is complex illness about which we still know very little. It often appears in particularly clever and sensitive children in their teens. Matt is such a child. The characterisation and the dialogue of the novel are beautifully pitched, it is totally believable, touching and splendid. Read it."

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John Green is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author whose many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. You can join John's 1.2 million followers on Twitter (@realjohngreen) or visit him online at johngreenbooks.com and fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com. John lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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• Hardcover: 363 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (26 July 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1410450015
• ISBN-13: 978-1410450012
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3 cm

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Series: Thorndike Literacy Bridge

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I have to admit, even though I had heard this book was a really good one, even the thought of a young adult novel about teenagers with cancer didn't appeal to me that much. My initial reaction were also somewhat less than "stellar". Everyone talks in a very "razor sharp", "ultra witty" way that feels straight out of some Aaron Sorkin or Diablo Cody movie.

Not even remotely how any 16 or 17 year old I know of would speak. I feared that it was going to be all style without any substance, bouncing along until a requisite tearjearking conclusion.

But I was wrong.

This is a book with a group of characters that you really care about. At it's core are the star-crossed lovers, Hazel (the one with terminal cancer) and Augustus (the cancer survivor). They meet at a cancer support group and become close, despite Hazel's desire to avoid becoming a "grenade" in anybody's life. By which she means someone who will unwittingly cause significant hurt through their passing. They are fantastically loveable characters, who flit between deep conversations about the meaning of life and finding refuge in video games and reality TV shows. I loved them both. Still do.

But the book is more than that. It's about coming to terms with the fact that your life will almost certainly never rise above insignificance. Yes, you will matter to your family and friends, maybe even write a few reviews that people will like. But ultimately you probably won't make any life changing impact on the world. It's about the way we shrink from people with terminal disease only to laud them when they pass. It's about the impact that terminal diseases have on the families of those left behind. It's about teenagers growing up and learning to take responsibility for their own lives, defining themselves by who they are and not what disease they may have.

I don't know if there's anything life changing here, but it's definitely a moving, entertaining and thought provoking book.

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"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

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'A touching, often fiercely funny novel'

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'So good I think it should be compulsory reading for everyone!'

Daily Express

'John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a young generation while instilling it with the wisdom of a life that has lived too much yet will never live enough.

Rather than depressing, the book is filled with dark humour and is written with a beautiful simplicity that draws the reader in so deeply that it's not just the twist and turns but the gently bends and curves that you feel tugging at your emotions... No doubt in the end you will cry but you will also feel that you have discovered a little something about living'

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The YA crossover hit of the year. The love affair of two terminally ill teenagers could be mawkish. In fact, it's funny, clever, irreverent and life-affirming.

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'A humourous and poignant love story... It's terrifically funny... as well as a moving exploration of loss and grief. And no, it's so much not just for teenage cancer sufferers... it's for everyone.'

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'If you need inspiration when it comes to making the most of a moment, this one is for you'

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** John Green has over 1.2 million Twitter followers, and almost 700,000 subscribers to Vlogbrothers, the YouTube channel he created with his brother, Hank.

** The Fault in Our Stars will capture a crossover audience in the same vein as Zadie Smith, David Nicholls' One Day and Before I Die by Jenny Downham.

** 'Electric . . . Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy' - Jodi Picoult

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