Cold Water - Hardcover

Riley, Gwendoline

3.55

450 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786711094 ISBN 13: 9780786711093

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 2002

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Estranged from her family, Carmel McKisco, a spirited twenty-year-old working nights in a dive bar in Manchester, England, finds herself taking solace in the lives of her customers and succumbing to her romantic daydreams, in a moving novel of self-discovery that is filled with unforgettable characters.

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An extraordinary first novel from a highly promotable 22-year-old.

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VOTED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE FIRST NOVELS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN

'A beautiful debut novel...a real achievement...This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent'
Scotsman

'A truly original new voice in fiction. Her bleakly poetic first novel has an atmosphere all of its own: melancholy and profound yet shot through with the urgency of life and love'
Shena Mackay

Carmel McKisco is 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 Cornwall. Cold 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 reoccupations, for better or worse.

'Strikingly assured...A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality' Guardian

'Vivid and stylish and endlessly, surprisingly filled with perfect, unexpected images...a beautifully written book, utterly original and the most exciting thing to have been published this year...Fantastic' Big Issue

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