Ronnie in the Chair Mullins, Spike

Ronnie's stuck in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident, and his world has shrunk to the four walls of his flat and the parade of well-meaning visitors who don't know what to say. Spike Mullins writes disability without sentimentality — this is sharp, unsettling, often darkly funny. Ronnie's frustration bleeds through every page as he navigates a body that won't cooperate and a society that would rather look away. The prose is lean and uncompromising, refusing to soften the edges or offer easy redemption. It's a portrait of isolation, anger, and the strange intimacies that form when your independence is stripped away. For readers who want their fiction raw and their characters unvarnished — this sits somewhere between early Irvine Welsh's grit and the psychological claustrophobia of Notes from Underground.