Cold Water
by Gwendoline RileyEstimated delivery 4-14 business days
Format Paperback
Condition Brand New
Description Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield.
'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' - ScotsmanWinner of the Betty Trask McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing- a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Water is a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies; eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero- a singer from Macclesfield. As she spins out the days and nights of an unrelentingly rainy winter she finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse.
- ISBN 0099437155
- ISBN-13 9780099437154
- Title Cold Water
- Author Gwendoline Riley
- Format Paperback
- Year 2003
- Pages 160
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
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