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Riverskin

"An original and memorable adventure with a language all of its own"

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June 2025 Debut of the Month

Tess has skin that is ‘green-yeller like the inside of an apple’. She has webbed fingers and toes and can feel the beginning of a fin growing down her spine. She lives with her Aunt Peg in damp, dark tunnels underneath the River Tees, eats raw fish, their home furnished with human flotsam and jetsam salvaged from the water. Also living there is the terrifying Unkle Darkwater, a malevolent presence and a monstrous figure, kept chained in a pit but still a constant threat.

When Unkle finally breaks free, and Aunt Peg is lost, Tess is helped by the ‘dry-folk’ boy she saved from drowning and finally begins to learn more about herself and her origins.

Mike Edwards’ novel is an original adventure with a plot that sweeps readers along like the fast currents of the Tees. Tess is a distinctive and memorable character but it’s the language that sets this apart, the near poetic descriptions of the moods of the river, her and Peg’s newly moulded words, mood-swirly, gibbly, updown inout.

Ambitious and atmospheric with a strong sense of the North-East, it's an impressive debut.

Andrea Reece

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