Strings Attached

In her first novel Gay Walley weaves into a seamless narrative - a woman's quest for love, and the drunken, vagabond childhood she endured with her father. Raised on a barstool, Charlee spends her youth drinking in the dark dives of New England and Montreal with a father who flees from woman to woman. As an adult, in one of her father's haunts, the man whose flaws and attractions will make her face every emotion that confounded her dad. She longs for companionship, but from her father...
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In her first novel Gay Walley weaves into a seamless narrative - a woman's quest for love, and the drunken, vagabond childhood she endured with her father. Raised on a barstool, Charlee spends her youth drinking in the dark dives of New England and Montreal with a father who flees from woman to woman. As an adult, in one of her father's haunts, the man whose flaws and attractions will make her face every emotion that confounded her dad. She longs for companionship, but from her father she has learned to trust only her own will and to crave solitude. Can she overcome a life of defiant independence and her drought of affection? Walley's daring prose style allows the writer to make Charlee's rough but endearing story immediate and vital in her present. Strings Attached was a Finalist for the Pirate's Alley/Faulkner Award, the Capricorn Award, and the Paris Book Festival Award. Originally printed in 1999 by University Press of Mississippi.