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Gold

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Synopsis

Miyuki Woodward; lover of pints and instant food has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least during pub-quiz nights, when Short Mr Hughes, Tall Mr Hughes and Mr Puw are especially glad to recruit Miyuki and her trivia prowess to their team. This year, following an act of raw creativity involving some cans of gold spraypaint, Miyuki will take part in the most turbulent events the village has seen since Tall Mr Hughes returned from the pub toilet without remembering to button up.

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Published
29/03/2007

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd

ISBN
9781841959535

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"Rhodes's fans already know about his skill with character, his brilliant sense of humour and ability to pull the rug from under the reader at just the right moment, but Gold is an even more emotionally powerful read than anything he's written before. This tale of a Japanese woman struggling to find her place in a small Welsh community is Rhodes at his very best, and that's as good as it gets." Matt Thorne "Very clever and very funny, Gold goes straight to the heart. Dan Rhodes is a true original; with a fresh, funny, quirky style that seems to owe nothing to other writers, and everything to his own powers of invention." Hilary Mantel"

About the author

Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. In 2003 he was named by Granta Magazine as one of their twenty Best of Young British Novelists. He is the author of four previous books.