Short-listed for the Pure Gold Fiction Award.
Long-listed for the Waverton Good Read

A short break in a shoreline cottage is an ideal place to struggle with your demons. For Elly and Martin it is the chance to forget their hasty exit from Paradise following scandal. But she makes a life-changing find on the tideline, a diamond dress-ring with finger bones still attached.

Scroll back a few months and at Martin's place of work - a Chester hospital - we meet new nurse Hayley. Young, gorgeous, she is a player, and totally turned off by surgeon, Richard Congreve. Until, that is, she is ensnared by a gift so desirable it may prove fatal. As we question who the ring and its finger really belong to, the cottage collects the secrets of those who have stayed there. Why has Elly such power over them all?

Ranging between Wales, the north of England and Goa, this is a novel about possession, betrayal - and how much we can afford to lose.

From an interview with Gee Williams by Chris High:

“In one sense I had the image at the heart of the book - the woman's ring lying at the water's edge, for... years. I got engaged when I was seventeen and promptly lost the ring. But I began to see the strange possibilities for the story very quickly once I sat down to write the opening scenes with Elly and Martin on the beach. If you're writing about betrayal - a destructive act - the prize for it has got to be worth having.”

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Reviews of Salvage

“Williams' writing is off-beat, subtle, haunting, fresh.”
Kate Long

“...if this riveting debut novel achieves the success it undoubtedly deserves, and if there is more of this calibre to come, then her name is about to become very well-known ...this is a novel that defies genre and crosses boundaries to extraordinary effect. Here is an author utterly in control of her material and manipulating it with outstanding dexterity. The apparent trajectory of the plot shifts and changes, the narrative voice switches from one character to another, in a mellifluous process that draws the reader, fascinated, ever deeper into plot and personality. Williams is clearly working with a wealth of material and ideas, yet there is nothing superfluous, nothing that is merely clever.
This is a thoroughly satisfying read that leaves many questions pleasingly unanswered. You turn the last page, looking for more; when it isn't there, you understand precisely why.”

From a review from Suzy Ceulan Hughes, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council.

“...a world at once so familiar yet so alien, it is as though there are some mystical powers at work on the reader...Salvage is imbued with a haunting sense of credibility that can do nothing but satisfy.”

Chris High Tangled Web

“...we are caught and hooked upon a multi-layered murder-mystery. There Williams feeds us little entrails to keep the haunting pages turning only to find, at each change of narrator, that we chose the wrong starter for the main course....Salvage is a gripping, unpredictable read that endears each of its colourful characters to us, flaws and all.”

Susie Wild Planet

“The novel has the distinction of being both a page-turner and one you want to savour. ...Salvage is the least predictable novel I've read in a long time.”

Sally Quilford The New Writer

“Power-sprayed with literary devices and ultimately effective with one overriding message: Never trust anyone from Cheshire!”

Phil Rickman Phil the Shelf BBC Radio Wales

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