Should We Fall Behind

Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Sharon's debut The Handsworth Times was chosen as a City Reads in 2017 and was The Morning Star Book of The Year.

• 'At its heart the novel is a spacious, melancholy work, its sorrowful yet hopeful storylines an elegy to time's passing. 'The Guardian'

'Duggal writes about the devastation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor, and as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry... beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with the hope that can only come from random encounters.' Preti Taneja