BODIES OF WATER

Book ID/图书代码： 11197516B88537

English Summary/英文概要： After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium.

Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up and eager for the restorative calm of the Thames. But her archivist neighbour, Manon, fills her head with the river’s murky past and with those men of science and art who were obsessed with the drowned women who were washed up on its banks.

As Kirsten learns more about Wakewater’s secrets, she becomes haunted by a solitary figure in the river and increasingly desperate to understand what the water wants from her.

With its increasingly oppressive atmosphere, the dead hand of the past falls heavily on Kirsten and the reader is drawn further and further into the tense reality of the novel, while the river ebbs and flows endlessly outside.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伊芙琳在维多利亚时期照料那些失足的女性，之后她便感觉精神衰弱，并被活水疗养院的医生接入院中，接受水疗。

几年后，活水疗养院被翻修成了一座现代公寓，刚刚失恋的柯尔斯顿成为了新租客，她非常希望泰晤士河平静祥和的气氛能带她走出痛苦。柯尔斯顿的邻居，玛农是个档案室管理员，她一直和柯尔斯顿念叨泰晤士河黑暗的过去，还有那些对河岸边冲上来的女士颇感兴趣的科学艺术怪人。

随着柯尔斯顿对活水疗养院的秘密了解地越多，她发现自己被一个河边的幽灵缠上了，她急切地想了解这个幽灵究竟出于什么目的出现在她面前。

随着剧情的深入，读者会随着柯尔斯顿一起探索事情的真相，而泰晤士河的潮水则一直起伏不断。（XAT）

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About the Author/作者介绍： V•H•莱斯利的短篇小说在全球范围内都有出版。她曾获得过霍森沃德奖学金和灯塔文学一等奖。

V.H. Leslie’s short stories have been published widely. She is a past winner of a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Lightship First Chapter Prize.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Significant pre-empt for the French language rights to the SALT title BODIES OF WATER by V.H. Leslie.

BODIES OF WATER, has been sold in a World French language deal today after a preempt from Beatrice Duval at Editions Denoël in Paris.

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