· Saltwater – Jessica Andrews. oldgreyowl Uncategorized August 5, 2 Minutes. This debut novel by Sunderland writer Jessica Andrews won the Portico Prize for fiction in , an award explicitly about representations of The North. As an exiled Northerner, and a North -Easterner like her at that, the idea has a lot of traction for me. Saltwater ebook mid; A Novel By Jessica Andrews. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library In "a stunning new voice in British literary fiction" (The Independent) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews's debut honors the richness and imperfection of the . · This article is more than 11 months old. Judges of the £10, Portico award hail Jessica Andrews’ Saltwater for showing northern identity as ‘a place within us’. ‘I wanted to write a Author: Alison Flood.
Jessica Andrews fills the relatively simple outlines of her story with lovely restrained prose and rich wisdom." - Open Letters Review "Jessica Andrews doesn't exactly write. She paints Saltwater is the story of Lucy remembering—but also, sort of, forgetting—the life that has left her so fractured If Lucy's been pulled. Some aspects of Jessica Andrews' debut 'Saltwater' reminded me a lot of 'Sight' by Jessie Greengrass, particularly in its visceral imagery concerning changing bodies and an emerging sense of self. Based on Andrews' life so far, it also appears that there is a strong element of autofiction in this coming-of-age story in which Lucy is. Saltwater - Jessica Andrews. This debut novel by Sunderland writer Jessica Andrews won the Portico Prize for fiction in , an award explicitly about representations of The North. As an exiled Northerner, and a North -Easterner like her at that, the idea has a lot of traction for me. The North is a different country, even in these days of.
The narrator of Jessica Andrews’s first novel, “Saltwater,” is a university graduate from the working class, trying to find her place in the wider world. Saltwater — jessica andrews. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in working-class Sunderland, amid legendary family stories of. In “a stunning new voice in British literary fiction” (The Independent) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews’s debut honors the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. Intricately woven in lyrical vignettes, Saltwater is a novel of becoming-- a woman, an artist-- and of finding a way.
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