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Bodies of Water
V. H. Leslie
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Description for Bodies of Water
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy Awards Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016 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. 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. 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. As 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784630713
SKU
V9781784630713
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About V. H. Leslie
V. H. Leslie's stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Weird Fiction Review and Strange Tales IV. She has also had fiction and non-fiction published in Shadows and Tall Trees and writes a monthly column for This is Horror. Her story `Namesake' was recently selected for Best British Horror and 2013 also saw her win a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Lightship First Chapter Prize.
Reviews for Bodies of Water
Millie remains a haunting presence and influences both outcomes for Evelyn and Kirsten. A real ghostly presence or imagined through some mental disintegration of our protagonists? I'm not quite sure and I don't think it matters. For some reason that I can't articulate, I really liked the book, even though it is a million miles from my preferred reading genre.
Col's Criminal Library
The writing is simply gorgeous, at times lyrical and beautiful in its simplicity, with hints of magical realism/folklore and fantasy and the tension was always present throughout. It is quite a creepy, eerie and very atmospheric read and, for someone who has never liked the water much, a damn scary one at times.
Book Magpie
And, in the end, neither the heart of this book nor the nature of woman can possibly be reached, for to reach such ends would be to destroy them. The book's ramifications shimmer on - frightful and transcendent in tidal irresistibilities.
Dreamcatcher
Bodies Of Water is a solid article. It's well-researched and it puts a different spin on a well-used format. It's got enough of the history that intrigues many people without treading the same path. Recommended.
The Worm Hole
it excels is in its commentary on the treatment of Victorian women as well as its hair-raising and unsettling tone.
Erin Hull
The Bookbag
Bodies of Water is a modern Gothic masterpiece, a haunting and moving story filled with rich, tender writing and an ending that manages to be both melancholic and uplifting at the same time, it is a confident start to Leslie's novel writing career.
Jim Mcleod
Ginger Nuts of Horror
Relishing in its genre coding and richly atmospheric, Bodies of Water is a fascinating debut and demonstrates the promise of V.H. Leslie as a novelist. It's a book for reading by the fire with a blanket ready to draw around yourself as the brilliant chill sets in and takes hold.
Becky Lea
Film and Other Assorted Buffery
Col's Criminal Library
The writing is simply gorgeous, at times lyrical and beautiful in its simplicity, with hints of magical realism/folklore and fantasy and the tension was always present throughout. It is quite a creepy, eerie and very atmospheric read and, for someone who has never liked the water much, a damn scary one at times.
Book Magpie
And, in the end, neither the heart of this book nor the nature of woman can possibly be reached, for to reach such ends would be to destroy them. The book's ramifications shimmer on - frightful and transcendent in tidal irresistibilities.
Dreamcatcher
Bodies Of Water is a solid article. It's well-researched and it puts a different spin on a well-used format. It's got enough of the history that intrigues many people without treading the same path. Recommended.
The Worm Hole
it excels is in its commentary on the treatment of Victorian women as well as its hair-raising and unsettling tone.
Erin Hull
The Bookbag
Bodies of Water is a modern Gothic masterpiece, a haunting and moving story filled with rich, tender writing and an ending that manages to be both melancholic and uplifting at the same time, it is a confident start to Leslie's novel writing career.
Jim Mcleod
Ginger Nuts of Horror
Relishing in its genre coding and richly atmospheric, Bodies of Water is a fascinating debut and demonstrates the promise of V.H. Leslie as a novelist. It's a book for reading by the fire with a blanket ready to draw around yourself as the brilliant chill sets in and takes hold.
Becky Lea
Film and Other Assorted Buffery