Joshua Spassky

Riley’s prose is as clear, sharp and sobering as her heroine’s tonic water. Bubbles of bitter humour burst and repeat on the reader’s tongue * Daily Telegraph *
Riley writes with a Woolf-ish exactitude… A brilliant and beautiful novel – Kate Saunders * The Times *
She is still at her best when she writes - with great verve and invention - about her home town. She takes the rain that covers Manchester like a tent. And transforms it into something beautiful * Times Literary Supplement *
A poignant novel of attempted departures… To read Riley is to be trapped inside a consciousness whose self-pity, indulgence and petulance are offset by taut style, wry humour, exactitude of image - a consciousness watching itself – Anita Sethi * Independent *
Sharply written…An engaging read * Guardian *
A truly original new voice in fiction – Shena Mackay
It reads like a hit of espresso, a short intense experience that starts with endings and ends with a declaration of love * Herald *

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

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