Fit

Winner of the 2020 Northern Book Prize

This is the

first novel by Sammy Wright, a secondary-school teacher with first-hand

experience of a contemporary Britain in which children starve and the gulf

between rich and poor is vast and growing. Charting the impact on a small

community of a girl being plucked by happenstance from her foster home and

dropped into a dazzling new life as a London model, Fit is a moving,

tragic, but ultimately hopeful look at the ways in which poverty and neglect

can echo through a life . . . even after you think you’ve gotten your fairy-tale

ending.

Fit was the winner, by unanimous decision, of the 2020 Northern Book Prize.