"This magnificent thriller sees the mystery around a mother’s drowning in a Gower estuary resurface in the wake of a new vanishing."
Suspenseful and suffused in the uncanny power of the ever-shifting tides of a Welsh estuary, Carys Shannon’s Truth Like Water is a first-rate mystery novel. Rippling with the dark revelations of a rural village and the family secrets of a young woman who’s all but lost to grief and the agony of not knowing the truth, it’s a sublimely-written work.
Three years have passed since Catrin’s mother drowned in the estuary close to their home: “She looked mythical, lying like a mermaid in the shallow estuary water, her skin the lightest shade of blue, an ebbing tide pulling at her dark curls”. But Catrin doesn’t believe it was an accident — her mother “knew the tides and would never have risked getting caught out”.
When a teenage girl goes missing on the same mudflats and Catrin informs the police, both police and villagers close rank, brushing it off as a result of the girl having run away in the past. Consumed by finding the girl, Catrin unearths a succession of dark secrets in an exquisitely-paced mystery that’s menacing, moving and consummately gripping.
This is a story of lost women – some who can be found again, and some who can't.
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This is a story of lost women – some who can be found again, and some who can't. The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.
Truth Like Water features in the following genres: Debut Books of the Month, Debuts, Star Books, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction
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Truth Like Water was written by Carys Shannon and published by Parthian
Truth Like Water has 318 pages
£10.80, reduced from £12.00. In Stock.
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