ABOUT THIS BOOK
PUBLISHER: Freight Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781911332312
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 272
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 4, 2017
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The Last Wave
Gillian Best
A beautifully rendered family drama set in England between the 1950s and the present, following the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and the complex relationships she has with her husband, her children and her close friends.Debut author, Best, a native of Toronto, presents a wholly authentic tragicomic portrait of family life as it is buffeted by illness, intolerance, anger, failure and regret. A mature, accomplished and compelling new voice; a novel soaked in empathy and salt water.
Gillian Best
Gillian Best studied at York University, Canada, University College, Falmouth and the University of Glasgow. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published widely. She won the Bronwen Wallace Prize and was shortlisted for the Bridport Award and the Wasafiri Prize. She lives in Bristol.
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