Cold Water

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<p>Carmel 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 Cornwall.</p><p><i>Cold Water</i>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.</p>

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Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three other novels:<i>Sick Notes</i>,<i>Joshua Spassky</i>, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award and, most recently,<i>Opposed Positions.</i>

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