- Paperback: 217 pages
- Publisher: Alcemi (25 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955527201
- ISBN-13: 978-0955527203
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.6 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,235,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A controlled and gifted stylist, Williams is inventive and inspiring in her craft. Salvage masquerades as a murder mystery while exploring the less sunlit aspects of the Welsh shoreline and of the human soul. Dominant and daring in her prose, Williams relishes the act of writing and constructs five distinct characters with genres particular to each, including a wonderful Cosmo send-up for the gorgeous gold-digging nurse as well as a provocative intervention of the author herself. Salvage constantly shifts the literary goalposts from crime to romance to a metafictional crisis while never losing the immediacy of the characters or the suspense of the crime. --Prof Colin Nicholson, JTB Prize Judge
Offbeat, subtle, fresh. --Kate Long
Riveting... a novel that defies genre and crosses boundaries to extraordinary effect... an author utterly in control of her material... nothing superfluous... nothing merely clever. --gwales
Offbeat, subtle, fresh. --Kate Long
Riveting... a novel that defies genre and crosses boundaries to extraordinary effect... an author utterly in control of her material... nothing superfluous... nothing merely clever. --gwales
Offbeat, subtle, haunting, fresh
Kate Long
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Salvage - Psychologically Compelling,
By Peter Johnson (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Salvage (Paperback)
Ellie and Martin are just back from Goa. On a Welsh beach they stumble across a severed finger, with an impressive-looking ring still attached.
This multi-layered narrative expertly spins us through the lives of Richard, a Chester surgeon, his hospital colleagues and events which might unravel their lives. 'Salvage', with its psychologically penetrating narrative and diamond sharp imagery will glint and shimmer its way into your memory. PETER JOHNSON
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A great book from a new novel writer,
By Chris High "Chris H" (Wirral, Merseyside,England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Salvage (Paperback)
What would you do if you found treasure on the beach? In Gee Williams debut novel, Salvage, Elly not only finds treasure, she also finds it attached to a body-part.
A short break in a shoreline cottage is an ideal place to struggle with your demons. For Elly and Martin it is the chance to forget their hasty exit from Paradise following classroom scandal. But Elly makes a life-changing find on the tide-line. It is a huge pink diamond ring, finger bones still attached. Scroll back a few months and at Martin's place of work - a Chester hospital - we meet new nurse Hayley. Twenty-five; gorgeous (even by her own admission); she is a player, and totally turned off by the ward surgeon, Richard Congreve. Until, that is, she catches a whiff of something expensive in his Jag and is ensnared by a gift so desirable it may prove fatal. As we begin to question who the ring and its finger really belong to, the cottage collects the secrets of those friends and strangers who have stayed there. Why has Ellly such power over them all? Ranging between Wales, the north of England and Goa, this is a novel about possession, betrayal, violence - and just how much we can afford to lose. Poet-turned-novelist, Gee Williams, has used all of her immense talent as a writer to conjure up a world at once so familiar yet so alien, it is as though there are some mystical powers at work on the reader. Her characters are so believable, with their stories being told so matter-of-factly, Salvage is imbued with a haunting sense of credibility that can do nothing but satisfy. With descriptive prose that enrich each page and paragraph, Salvage will, hopefully, be the first of many books to fly from the pen of Gee Williams and so enhance the reputation she already has as a fine writer. www.chrishigh.com
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Where did that come from?,
This review is from: Salvage (Paperback)
I don't think anyone could guess the ending of this book. I kept thinking yeah I've got it now - but I hadn't. It's a murder mystery alright, but not like any I've read before. It was good. Now I've finished it I think WOW!
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