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Salvage

Salvage

by Gee Williams (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves are the ones we most want to hear. On the brink of scandal, five characters bound by marriage, friendship 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 a finger still attached - washed up on a beach. Written in the brilliantly vivid vernacular of everyday lives, Salvage is a taut, engrossing study of betrayal, self-justification and the consequences of rewriting the past.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 06 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 1847081088
ISBN 13: 9781847081087
Book Overview: A remarkably assured, suspenseful and psychologically rich first novel about the secrets that unravel when a couple find a diamond ring - with a finger attached - washed up on a beach.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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, her first novel, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was voted winner of the Pure Gold Fiction Award by Welsh readers. Born in Flintshire, North Wales, Gee Williams now lives in Cheshire with her husband.