A01=Gwendoline Riley
Author_Gwendoline Riley
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cold water
coming of age
contemporary
contemporary fiction
depression
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first love
literary fiction
mental health
opposed positions
relationships
romantic fiction
social stories
somerset maugham
the writers tale
womans prize fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781784707286
- Weight: 149g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that seems meaningless and absurd. Instead she lives in her own head. Then she meets Newton, a care-worn American wanderer with a drinker's face and an angel's smile. Newton changes everything. But for how long?
Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published several successful novels: Cold Water, which won a Betty Trask Award; Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award; and, most recently, Opposed Positions.
