Cold Water

Gwendoline Riley (born 1979) is a British novelist whose debut Cold Water (2002) won the Betty Trask Award, followed by Joshua Spassky (2007), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and First Love (2017), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, and James Tait Black Memorial Prize; her novel My Phantoms (2021) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.