A spare and stunning new novel from one of England's brightest literary talents
Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published four novels- Cold Water, which won a Betty Trask Award, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Opposed Positions.
Riley writes with a kind of defeated ecstasy
*Sunday Times*
Scrupulous performance
*Times Literary Supplement*
Although she works on a small canvas, Riley’s work is both
intricate and expansive. Her prose is a continual joy to read, and
the detail immensely satisfying: she can squeeze more resonance out
of a misplaced apostrophe than others can from baroque,
technicolour trauma
*Scotland on Sunday*
Never less than enthralling
*Bookmunch*
Riley's appetite for risk-taking and vinegary apercus remains
undiminished
*Independent*
This short novel laces its devastating observation of relationships
with disturbing maturity. If next year's Orange judging panel
doesn't take notice of Riley, it will have missed a trick
*Book Oxygen*
Wonderfully spare lyricism and deadpan wit
*Metro*
The dialogue feels very natural and her use of language is sharp
and precise
*TheBookbag.co.uk*
Icily impressive
*Daily Mail*
A short, sharp, shockingly brilliant peer down the pen of Aislinn
Kelly
*Dazed & Confused*
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