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Category: Bestsellers, Crime and Thrillers, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 472
ISBN: 9781781721872
Publication date: September 15, 2014
Price: £9.99
Category: Bestsellers, Crime and Thrillers, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 472
ISBN: 9781781721889
Publication date: September 15, 2014
Price: £7.99
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2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner.
Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s cut and dyed her hair and bought new clothes, but only gets as far as a small town in northern France when her flight is violently cut short. When Inspector Vivier and his assistant Sabine Pelat begin their investigation the chance encounters of her last days take on a new significance.
Lucy’s death, like a stone thrown into a pool, sends out far-reaching ripples, altering the lives of people who never knew her as well as those of her loved ones back home.
Jo Mazelis
Jo Mazelis is a novelist, poet, short story writer and photographer living in Swansea. Her first novel Significance (Seren Books, 2014) won the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her collection of stories, Diving Girls, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth ‘Best First Book’ and Wales Book of the Year. Her second book, Circle Games, was long listed for Wales Book of the Year. Her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, published in various anthologies and magazines, and translated into Danish. Her third collection of stories Ritual, 1969 (Seren Books, 2016) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year and long listed for the Edge Hill Prize 2017. ‘Blister & other Stories’ was shortlisted for the International Rubery Award.
‘ An intricate, subtle thriller with a satisfying literary edge’
Francesca Rhydderch
“With Significance Mazelis has set her novel-writing bar at a breathtaking height.”
Rachel Trezise, Agenda
‘A blend of policier and existential thriller that expands this vision by giving her gifts for subverting genre and stereotype greater rein than ever before.’
John Goodby
‘There is also a much deeper level to the novel that is just as enthralling and entertaining, and it should be said beautifully written.’
Simon Savidge, Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Judge 2015
‘A cool and sophisticated look at human interaction, loving, violent and inexplicable simultaneously.’
Sarla Langdon, The Bay Magazine
‘Significance is written with admirable storytelling skill that weaves captivating narrative tension, poetic density and exploration of ideas.’
Valerie Sirr, Wales Arts Review
