Saltwash Author : Andrew Michael Hurley ISBN-13 : 978-1399817530 Publisher : John Murray Guideline Price : £16.99
It’s been a decade since Andrew Michael Hurley won the Costa First Novel Award for The Loney, a moody thriller set on a remote patch of coast in northwest England. He serves up another helping of seaside desolation in his latest novel, set in the fictional estuary town of Saltwash, with its derelict cafes, abandoned bingo hall, and “neglect ... so rife as to seem wilful”.
Our protagonist, the curiously named Tom Shift, is 75 and terminally ill; he has travelled there in the off-season at the request of his charismatic pen-friend, Oliver Keele, who is also dying.
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