Pondweed

Lisa Blower

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English

Myriad Editions
01 May 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A love story in the slow lane, a road novel from Stoke-on-Trent to Wales, a stolen caravan, and a salesman who kidnaps the love of his life — this is a journey of self-discovery for an odd couple of 60-somethings: childhood sweethearts reunited in later life.

One Monday afternoon, around three o'clock, pond supplies salesman Selwyn Robby arrives home towing the Toogood Aquatics exhibition caravan and orders his like-wife, Imogen 'Ginny' Dare, to get into the car. He's taking her on a little holiday, he says. To Wales.

So begins their road trip west via ponds, pitstops, and blasts from Selwyn's past. But it's a fishy business towing this caravan with its saucy mermaid curtains, fully stocked bar, and the words 'For your pondlife and beyond' in the slanted red font favoured by Pound shops. And Ginny must untangle the pondweed to get to the bottom of it, even it does mean unearthing her own murky past to find out.

By: Lisa Blower
Imprint: Myriad Editions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781912408863
ISBN 10: 1912408864
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Blower won the Guardian National Short Story Award and was listed for the BBC National Short Story Award and the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks was shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Prize and her short story collection It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's (Myriad, 2019) was widely praised. A contributor to Common People, edited by Kit de Waal, she has a PhD from Bangor University and teaches at Wolverhampton University. She lives in Shrewsbury.

Reviews for Pondweed

'In Pondweed, Lisa Blower takes us on a mysterious quest along the dual carriageways and B roads of the West Midlands. Her great talent is to make compelling characters of normal people, and show us all the strangeness they contain.'CHRIS POWER 'Funny, moving, philosophical and wise. A road trip through life, loss, and the murky depths of the human heart. Utterly charming and utterly hilarious.' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH 'Her stories are at times the laugh-out-loud funny of Alan Bennett and at others, the achingly sad of the great, David Constantine.' PAUL MCVEIGH