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A masterful performance... This is a gripping, mature, important novel. It would be a travesty if it doesn't win prizes. -- Observer Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation and his desperate need for recognition, a sudden and thrilling encounter offers him the promise of an escape, and Tom is forced to question whether he can reconcile his supressed desires with his dreams of success. Leah, the captain's wife, has almost forgotten the dreams she once held, for her career, her marriage. Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her. A Natural delves into the heart of a professional football club- the pressure, the loneliness, the threat of scandal, the fragility of the body and the struggle, on and off the pitch, with conforming to the person that everybody else expects you to be.

About the Author :
Ross Raisin is the author of three novels- A Natural, Waterline and God's Own Country, which was shortlisted for nine literary awards. Ross has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award and was named on Granta's most recent Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature. Ross teaches at the University of Leeds, for the Guardian Masterclass programme and for the education charity First Story. He lives in York. Find more on Ross, his books and teaching here- www.rossraisin.com

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Supremely accomplished and moving… A masterful performance… This is a gripping, mature, important novel. It would be a travesty if it doesn’t win prizes. A layered and subtle exploration of masculinity, fear and desire, A Natural is as good a novel as I’ve read in years. The poignancy of Ross Raisin’s characters are equalled only by the brilliance of his writing. Admirable … genius … amazing… vertiginous. A Natural is a brilliant, deft and moving coming of age novel about the nature of masculinity and sexuality set against the backdrop of sport. Sensitively and beautifully drawn, it confirms Ross Raisin as a superb writer. Most novels about football aren’t really about football… They tend to avoid describing the game itself, with its strange mixture of pelting energy and exquisite boredom. Instead they shunt it into the background or repackage it as a metaphor, allowing the simple whacking of a ball into the net to be used as a way of writing about far less tangible goals. Ross Raisin’s latest novel is refreshingly different. Following the fortunes of two lower-league footballers, it is a bold attempt to capture sport in the raw… pitch-perfect. A brave, subtle novel… To a non-fan, the literary football novel can seem a little daunting… Luckily, Ross Raisin’s exceptional new novel addresses and overturns these preconceptions and conventional notions of masculinity in the most unexpected and sophisticated fashion… Within the sinuous torque of its sentences, the book presents a subtle and portrait of a soul in torment. It’s a winner. Football, like love, is a world of extreme highs and lows, and the protagonists in this sensitively crafted novel can only find joy when they accept who they really are – five stars. A powerful evocation of repressed emotion – The Remains of the Day as told by Match of the Day. A Natural…is not just a football novel. It’s about depression, loneliness and the truth behind masculinity. Excellent… Raisin excels at hidden stories… this is a richer, deeper novel that purposefully rejects the over-exposed Premier League image of the beautiful game for the grubbier hardscrabble of life at the bottom of League Two… Raisin is really good at exposing the ways men parade ideas of masculinity… a deeply absorbing novel about the coded nature of identity, whether you are a footy fan or not.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781784702786
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Weight: 246 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1784702781
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 130 mm


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