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A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review

Andrews's writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O'Brien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up.
Penelope Green, The New York Times Book Review

This luminous (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother

It begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.

From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in Lucy's life has been her mother: comforting and mysterious, ferociously loving, tirelessly devoted, as much a part of L

Saltwater

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      Publisher Picador
      Published 1 December 2021
      ISBN-13 9781250785640
      978-1250785640
      ISBN-10 1250785642

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review

      Andrews's writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O'Brien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up.
      Penelope Green, The New York Times Book Review

      This luminous (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother

      It begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.

      From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in Lucy's life has been her mother: comforting and mysterious, ferociously loving, tirelessly devoted, as much a part of L

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