# The Royal Free

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- Book: [The Royal Free](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-shuker/the-royal-free) ([The Royal Free.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-shuker/the-royal-free.md))
- Authors: [Carl Shuker](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-shuker)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-16-4009-705-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An exuberant dark comedy about dying young, parenting through grief, and the full-on hilarity of copyediting a medical journal while the city around you burns James Ballard is a recently widowed father...