It was the view that drew her interest, the kind of view that she’d never be able to afford closer to the heart of the city. But Kirsten had hardly noticed the interior. It was a realisation that had struck her almost forcibly as she’d stood in one of the part-renovated flats belonging to the Wakewater Apartments development, or what would become Wakewater Apartments, once the restoration and modernisation was complete. This book is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Salt Publishing.
Leslie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. She has also been awarded fellowships at Hawthornden Castle and the Saari Residence.ġ2 Norwich Road, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 0AX In 2013 she won the Lightship First Chapter Prize and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for her novelette, ‘The Quiet Room’. 2015 saw the release of her short story collection, Skein and Bone. Leslie’s stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Shadows and Tall Trees and Strange Tales IV and have been reprinted in a range of ‘Year’s Best’ anthologies. Leslie story is not that you might be disappointed but rather the thrill of just how good it is going to be.’ -Stephen Volk, author or Whitstable ‘Tales of quiet unease, enigmatic, beautifully told, varied and darkly poetic. Leslie’s stories have a nightmarish fairy tale quality to them.’ -Alison Moore, author of The Lighthouse Leslie’s fiction builds in intensity, but at the same time possesses a strange, silky kind of calm.’ -Conrad Williams, author of The Unblemished
But her archivist neighbour, Manon, fills her head with the river’s murky past and with those men of science and art who were obsessed with the drowned women who were washed up on its banks.Īs Kirsten learns more about Wakewater’s secrets, she becomes haunted by a solitary figure in the river and increasingly desperate to understand what the water wants from her.
Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up and eager for the restorative calm of the Thames. After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium.
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