January Books 16) Slow River, by Nicola Griffith

[nwhyte]

My first Nebula winner of the year (only five more to go). In a lot of ways this is a very good book - excellent that Griffith has nested three different strands of plot, her heroine's childhood and then two different phases of her recovery from a kidnap ordeal, with some very sensuous descriptions of setting (Hull, of all places) and passionate

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[redfiona99]

>>with some very sensuous descriptions of setting (Hull, of all places) << I want to read it just to see if this is even possible.

[nwhyte]

Prepare to be enlightened! (Also it only costs a penny second-hand off the Internets.)

[drasecretcampus]

Why "of all places"? It's a very vivid place - and that was where she had been based.

[nwhyte]

Apologies to Hull-o-philes. My only knowledge of the place comes from people who have left it for good - including Nicola Griffith, and I think your good self? But that is not a fair metric, I admit.

[bibliofile]

Didn't it win the Tiptree that year, too? Alas, our library system has already cycled away its copies, so I haven't reread it in years.

[nwhyte]

Actually, no; Griffith's earlier book Ammonite won the Tiptree in 1993.

[unwholesome_fen]

As I recall, the McKillip is worth a read.