Opposed Positions

Riley writes with a kind of defeated ecstasy – Leo Robson * Sunday Times *
Scrupulous performance – Kate Webb * Times Literary Supplement *
Although she works on a small canvas, Riley’s work is both intricate and expansive. Her prose is a continual joy to read, and the detail immensely satisfying: she can squeeze more resonance out of a misplaced apostrophe than others can from baroque, technicolour trauma – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
Never less than enthralling * Bookmunch *
Riley’s appetite for risk-taking and vinegary apercus remains undiminished – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *
This short novel laces its devastating observation of relationships with disturbing maturity. If next year’s Orange judging panel doesn’t take notice of Riley, it will have missed a trick – Elsbeth Lindner * Book Oxygen *
Wonderfully spare lyricism and deadpan wit – Tina Jackson * Metro *
The dialogue feels very natural and her use of language is sharp and precise – Robin Leggett * TheBookbag.co.uk *
Icily impressive * Daily Mail *
A short, sharp, shockingly brilliant peer down the pen of Aislinn Kelly * Dazed & Confused *

Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published four novels:

• Cold Water (won a Betty Trask Award)
• Sick Notes
• Joshua Spassky (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award)
• Opposed Positions

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