A novella from Caroline Smailes featuring characters from her critically acclaimed debut, In Search of Adam.
The houses on Disraeli Avenue all looked the same, the same shape, the same size but behind each coloured front door there was a story, a secret, a need. Bill Williams is lost, Aunty Maggie longs to be young and attractive, Crystal is searching to find out more about Adam. Tales of debt, infidelity, incest, love and loss all combine and weave into a mosaic of working class life.
CAROLINE SMAILES lives in the North West of England with her husband and three children. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton is her fifth novel. She can be found at www.carolinesmailes.co.uk and twitter.com/Caroline_S
Praise for Caroline Smailes
‘Will Self and Caroline Smailes are arch-experimentalists’ OBSERVER
‘One of the most unusual and talented writers around .’ STUART EVERS, Netgalley
‘She experiments, she doesn't settle. She's a restless, questing spirit – always in search of the story that shocks her readers out of complacency. And she is – book after book – getting herself a reputation as a force to be reckoned with.’ STEPHEN MAY, author of Life! Death! Prizes!
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