Cold Water |
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| Author:
| Riley, Gwendoline |
| ISBN: | 978-0-09-943715-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Arrow |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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...
More DescriptionCarmel 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.
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 preoccupations, for better or worse.