Joshua Spassky

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<p>Joshua and Natalie share a vexed five-year history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, spliced with sad intimations of true love. Natalie is attempting to start a new life in Manchester, but when Joshua calls unexpectedly and asks her to meet him in America she knows she has no choice but to go.</p><p>Whilst wandering around the Blue Ridge Mountains or lying together for days in their cheap hotel room, they talk about their lives - about his ex-wife, and her dead family - and come to a surprising understanding.</p><p>Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize.</p>

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Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three previous novels:<i>Cold Water</i>, which won a Betty Trask Award;<i>Sick Notes</i>; and, most recently,<i>Opposed Positions.</i>

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