num_pages: 224
description: Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels unsettled as his boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father.
language: English
title: Shuttlecock
titlecomplete: Shuttlecock
genres: British Literature, Collections, Novels, School, 20th Century, Audiobook, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 782
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
publisher: Pan Books Ltd