Skin (Hardcover)

'A writer of frankly alarming talent' ROBERT MACFARLANE London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why. In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty's hunt for Joe leads to the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Beneath the water, there is a new kind of freedom. Above the water, a welcoming community of men offer refuge from an increasingly rocky home life. Fourteen years later, a new revelation sees Matty set off alone in a campervan, driving westwards through Ireland, swimming its wild loughs and following the scant clues left behind about Joe. The trip takes a dangerous turn, and Matty is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers. But safety comes at a price, and with desire and fear running high, the journey turns into an explosive, heart-rending reckoning with the past. Skin is inventive, compelling and deeply moving - a novel of loss and recovery, of wild swimming and identity from a rising star of British fiction. *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN i NEWSPAPER*

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2021
Authors:	Kerry Andrew
Dimensions:	223 x 144 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-78733-164-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-78733-164-4
Barcode:	9781787331648

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