Skin

Skin
Kerry Andrew
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 368pg
10 Feb 2022 UK
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9781529111101
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London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he' s gone, or why. In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty' s hunt for Joe leads to the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Beneath the water, there is a new kind of freedom. Above the water, a welcoming community of men offer refuge from an increasingly rocky home life. Fourteen years later, a new revelation sees Matty set off alone in a campervan, driving westwards through Ireland, swimming its wild loughs and following the scant clues left behind about Joe. The trip takes a dangerous turn, and Matty is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers. But safety comes at a price, and with desire and fear running high, the journey turns into an explosive, heart-rending reckoning with the past. Skin is inventive, compelling and deeply moving - a novel of loss and recovery, of wild swimming and identity from a rising star of British fiction.
Andrew' s wonderful second novel is the deeply involving story of a difficult childhood, a search for a long-missing parent, how we view our bodies and the secrets we keep even from those who know us best. -- 75 Books for 2021 * i Newspaper * A gloriously raw and watery adventure, fraught with fluidity, teen-angst and identity; an update of Ovid' s transformations and Catcher in the Rye, re-gendered in the Hampstead ponds and the deeper waters, far beyond. . . * Philip Hoare * Andrew' s wonderful second novel is a deeply involving story of a difficult childhood. -- Sarah Hughes * i, *Books to Look Out For 2021* *
Kerry Andrew is a London-based author and musician, whose debut novel Swansong was described as a ' darkly captivating tale of myth, magic and sinister secrets' by the Mail on Sunday, and whose ' To Belong To' was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award. Kerry is the winner of four British Composer Awards, and best known for experimental vocal, choral and music-theatre work, often based around themes of community, landscape and myth. Kerry has released two albums with the band You Are Wolf- Hawk to the Hunting Gone (2014), a collection of avian folk-songs re-interpreted, and Keld (2018), inspired by freshwater folklore. ' One Swallow' was Kerry' s short story debut on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529111101
Published: 10 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 295g
Pages: 368

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