Review
"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 If Gee Williams was a more celebrated author she could win [the JTB] competition. Brilliant. blindmanwithapistol.blogspot.com 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.com Williams' writing is off-beat, subtle, haunting, fresh. Kate Long Williams feeds us little entrails to keep the haunting pages turning, only to find, at each change of narrator, that we chose the wrong starter for the main course...Williams' prose passages ebb and flow with a sparkling beauty, each containing tideline treasures of their own that remain deposited in your mind long after you've put the book down... Salvage is a gripping, unpredictable read that endears each of its colourful characters to us, flaws and all. Planet Salvage is imbued with a haunting sense of credibility that can do nothing but satisfy. With descriptive prose that enriches each page and paragraph... a fine writer. Chris High, Tangled Web crime website Power-sprayed with literary devices...Salvage is ultimately effective, conveying one inescapable message: never trust anybody in Cheshire. Phil Rickman, Radio Wales"
Product Description
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 she makes a life-changing find on the tideline, a diamond dress-ring with finger bones still attached.Scroll back a few months and at Martin's place of work - a Chester hospital - we meet new nurse Hayley. Young, gorgeous; 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 question who the ring and its finger really belong to, the cottage collects the secrets of those who have stayed there. Why has Elly such power over them all?
