Skin

A gorgeous folkloric novel of water and love… You should read this and you should also read Kerry's Swansong. It's a rare thing to see folklore woven into beautiful, tender human reality with such delicacy and skills—Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk and Mischief ActsKerry Andrew is that rare thing, a natural storyteller with one of those quietly confident voices that takes you by the cuff and leads you down unexpected passages. In the finest tradition of quest tales, Skin's protagonist sets out in search of one thing and ends by discovering quite another and both they and the reader grow a little as a result—Patrick GaleAndrew's wonderful second novel is the deeply involving story of a difficult childhood, a search for a long-missing parent, how we view our bodies and the secrets we keep even from those who know us best. —75 Books for 2021, i NewspaperA sweeping coming-of-age narrative whose on-point themes of gender and sexuality are embedded in evocative descriptions of London during the 1980s, and of boomtime Ireland a decade later—Mail OnlineThis evocative and sensitive tale is grounded by the authentic complexity of its characters… Inspired.—Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail