And then when I was eighteen I ran away from home to live with my girlfriend in another city, Hull. I did not know that there was any other way to live. I was raised in a very conventional white middle-class Catholic family, and taught to always obey the rules-stay within the system and the system will protect you. It is now a bustling regional financial center. I was born in Leeds which grew to its present size during the textile revolution. The first experience was when I was eighteen, the second almost ten years later. Slow River comes from the intersection of two different experiences, both of which changed my perceptions of myself and my place in the world. In Slow River, Nicola Griffith skillfully takes us deep into the mind and heart of her complex protagonist, where the past must be reconciled with the present if the future is ever to offer solid ground.Current US cover (Ballantine/Del Rey), current UK ebook (Gateway/Orion), original US cover (Ballantine/Del Rey), current UK print edition (Gollancz Masterworks), original UK edition (Voyager/HarperCollins). Only by confronting her past, her family, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's games one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van de Oest to be paid. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and inventing her future.īut to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents-Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner.and risk losing herself forever. She had escaped.but she paid for her newfound freedom in crime, deception, and degradation-over and over again. No one could find Lore if she didn't want to be found: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die.
Then out of the rain walked Spanner, an expert data pirate who took her in, cared for her wounds, and gave her the freedom to reinvent herself again and again. Lore Van de Oest was the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families.and now she was nobody.
She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, now turns her attention closer to the present in Slow River, the dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of a near-future Europe.
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