A spare and stunning new novel from one of England's brightest literary talents
Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three previous novels- Cold Water, which won a Betty Trask Award; Sick Notes; and Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award.
"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*
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