Salvage
By (Author) Gee Williams
Granta Books
Granta Books
4th September 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Winner of Pure Gold Fiction Award 2008 (UK)
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
168g
Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves are the ones we most want to hear. On the brink of scandal, five characters bound by marriage, friendshp and lust attempt to rescue what is most important to them.
Through their interwoven narratives, Gee Williams deftly explores the dangers of our personal fictions in a dark, compelling mystery that begins on a stretch of the desolate Welsh coast, when Elly Kent discovers a ring - with the finger still attached.
Written in the brilliantly vivid, vernacular prose of everyday lives, Salvage is a taut, engrossing study of betrayal, self-justification and the consequences of rewriting the past.
"A controlled and gifted stylist, Williams is inventive and inspiring in her craft. Salvage masquerades as a murder mystery while exploring the less sunlit aspects of the Welsh shoreline and of the human soul." --Professor Colin Nicholson, James Tait Black Prize judge
Gee Williams is a widely published poet and dramatist as well as a writer of fiction, including two short story collections, Blood, Etc, and Magic and Other Deceptions. Salvage, is her first novel. Gee lives in Cheshire with her husband.