Keith Ridgway

Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner for life, though he now lives in south London, carrying the city's underbelly into novels about abuse, breakdown and connection. Born in 1965, he turned that inherited strangeness into stories where ordinary people reveal unbearable truths. The Long Falling brought a gay son and his trapped mother into light, winning French prizes before becoming a film. His work remains a sharp dive beneath surfaces others pretend not to see.