Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley is a British novelist whose spare, precisely crafted literary fiction explores family dysfunction, difficult relationships, and the interior lives of women with unflinching honesty. Her novels include Cold Water, Joshua Spassky, Opposed Positions, First Love, and My Phantoms, the last two of which were shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Riley's writing is admired for its economy, psychological acuity, and refusal to offer easy consolation. Her books and audiobooks reward listeners with prose of surgical precision, offering intimate, powerful portraits of people struggling with the damage inflicted by those closest to them.