The Hook

Christie Naylor's life is torn apart when her mother dies and her father's crazed reaction is to gamble.
He wins a fish farm in a game of poker and uproots Christie and her brother and sister from their life in the anonymity and safety of suburbia to live on a waterlogged field with a lake full of fish and no friends for miles. Christy falls in love with Mick Fleet, magnetic and overpowering. She knows nothing about him, but plunges into a love affair hoping he will hook her out of her sorrow, and blind to the catastophe hovering close by......

“Grippingly constructed...it is saturated with fish and fishiness and at times there are echoes of Graham Swift's haunting eel-oriented masterpiece Waterland”
Literary review

“Stylish and insightful... With the pace and verve of a thriller”
The Independent

“Subtle and engaging”
The Guardian

“Delightful...expertly structured...a true novelist with an engaging authorial voice and the imagination and skill to create a believable fictional world.”
Evening Standard

“Glorious”
Mail on Sunday

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