A freak tidal surge hits a shabby Welsh seaside town leaving considerable damage and three locals drowned. But when the remains of a fourth are found in the filth and debris it takes time for their identification as a celebrated Oxford historian Sara Meredith. The mystery of her disappearance from the town caused at the time that has still not died down. Now it returns to overshadow the lives of the few people who were close to her and causes one in particular to search for a resolution...What is known is that she arrived here in pursuit of her young runaway daughter: Eurwen- a Welsh name, a difficult name for an impossible girl. As any concerned parent would, Meredith has followed her to the home of her ex-husband where the girl was last seen. But from the moment she arrives here she is herself stalked by someone who appears to know a great deal too much about both mother and child. Her every move is dogged and, it seems, predicted while each desperate effort to locate the girl is thwarted rather than helped by the people she meets and the town itself. And then there are Meredith's own misdemeanours to be accounted for...
Expect Radio 4 coverage, recent Radio 4 programme guest for The Listening Project 'Gee and David: A Literary Marriage' http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/radio-4-gee-and-david-literary-marriage New Welsh Review will publish an extract of the novel in spring 2015 ahead of publication Expect Hay Festival date Gee's website: http://www.geewilliams.info/About the AuthorGee Williams was born and brought up in North Wales and now lives in Cheshire with her husband. A widely-published poet and a dramatist as well as writer of fiction, her work has appeared in disparate places: from The Sunday Times to The Pan Book of Horror. Many of her scripts have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4. She has won both The Rhys Davies and The Book Pl@ce Contemporary Short Story Awards, was Poetry Review's New Poet, Summer '97, short-listed for The Geoffrey Dearmer Award and (with Sol B. River) short-listed for the Race in the Media Radio Drama Award 2001.
Book InformationISBN 9781910409640
Author Gee WilliamsFormat Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books