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 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.
| ISBN: | 9780099437154 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2003 |
| Author: | Gwendoline Riley |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 148 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |