Why read Cold Fish Soup?

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WINNER OF THE 2021 NORTHBOUND BOOK AWARD

'Adam Farrer is a bold new voice in nonfiction writing. His keen observations are as gentle as they are wry, as attentive to the bleak truths of loss and deprivation as they are to the eccentric humour of humans being entirely themselves…

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1 author picked Cold Fish Soup as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jools Abrams

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As a prolific ghostwriter of memoirs, I’m also an avid reader of the form and writing my own. Cold Fish Soup deals with themes I’ve met before, personal trauma and the unexpected loss of a loved one, but it does so in a kind and no-nonsense, Northern way.

Adam observes his stretch of the Yorkshire coast with empathy and wit, with an astute understanding of those other world, forgotten towns, battered by the sea and neglect. He captures what it is to be an outsider in the edge lands.

This is a moving and funny study of family and the…

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