Sick Notes
  • Published: 30 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784707286
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $25.00

Sick Notes

Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

A brilliant coming-of-age novel about drinking, depression and the pain of first love from the critically-acclaimed winner of the Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham Awards.

Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that seems meaningless and absurd. Instead she lives in her own head. Then she meets Newton, a care-worn American wanderer with a drinker's face and an angel's smile. Newton changes everything. But for how long?
  • Published: 30 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784707286
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $25.00
Categories:

About the author

Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published four novels: Cold Water, which won a Betty Trask Award, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Opposed Positions.

portrait photo of Gwendoline Riley

Also by Gwendoline Riley

Opposed Positions
Joshua Spassky
Cold Water
See all

Praise for Sick Notes

Original and beautifully written... An inspiring book that you won't forget

Big Issue

A blinding follow-up to the award-winning and much-acclaimed Cold Water... A joy to read and a read to treasure and pass on

Scotsman

A portrait of an artist, a writer observing herself living. As such it is quite breathtaking

Times Literary Supplement

Riley's prose powerfully articulates the drinking, the depression, the itchy ache of growing up and the misery of first love... One of Britain's most original young writers

Observer

This is a young writer of immense promise

Literary Review
penguin pop image
penguin pop image