Sick to Death is a very, very clever book, with a deeply satisfying ending.
Emma, the protagonist, is suffering from a neurological condition which keeps her more or less housebound, squeezed into a tiny council house together with her daughter, her mother, and her vicious, grasping stepfather.
She has a boyfriend, Adam, who seems utterly perfect - there’s just one problem, his wife, Celeste. As the book unfolds, in and around the streets of South East London, where council houses lie cheek by jowl with magnificent Victorian terraced mansions, Emma becomes increasingly entangled in a baroque net of lies and dissimulation that puts her very life at risk.
Chris Bridges himself is a former NHS nurse with a hidden disability, and is eager to smash the trope of a passive disabled character consigned to a minor role somewhere in a quiet corner of the plot. This is his debut novel, and it’s a cracker.