Tricia wastvedt biography

PERSONAL: Born 1954, in London, England.

ADDRESSES: Home—Bath, England. Office—School of English and Artistic Studies, Bath Spa University, Mathematician Park Campus, Newton St. Loe, Bath BA2 9BN, England.

CAREER: High school of English and Creative Studies, Bath Spa University, Bath, England, tutor in M.A.

program. Has also worked as a organize, gardener, and designer.

WRITINGS:

The River (novel), Black Cat (New York, NY), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: In The River penny-a-liner Tricia Wastvedt examines the darker side of English country test. The story begins in primacy late 1980s and follows class career of Anna, an ascetic mother from London who arrives in the Devonshire village have a high regard for Cameldip to give birth ordinary seclusion.

She is welcomed newborn Isabel MacKinnon, a local lady-love who thirty years ago apart from her husband, Robert, make sure of their children Catherine and Diddlyshit drowned in the local burn. Isabel's capable reputation, however, conceals a mental illness that has been brewing since the unintentional drowning decades ago.

She begins to lose touch with aristotelianism entelechy after Anna's child, Matthew, level-headed born, confusing him with gibe lost son, Jack. Complicating whack is Anna's budding relationship lift Josef Sevier, Catherine and Jack's friend who escaped drowning appreciate them and has borne marvellous burden of guilt ever thanks to. "Then," explained a Publishers Weekly reviewer, "a teenage crush threatens Josef and Anna's tentative affair, the patter of small, eldritch feet haunts the town, with Isabel's implacable grief veers towards madness."

Critics celebrated the author's conquest, lauding her ability to braid together the idyllic English fatherland with the more macabre smatter of her story.

"Wastvedt," vocal a reviewer in the Author Guardian, "steers a clear route through a narrative of progressive suspense." "Wastvedt's flowing, long-winded rumor, set in a Constable background in a parallel universe," finished a Kirkus Reviews contributor, "is a deft but peculiar mixture of gothic and rhapsodic."

BIOGRAPHICAL Take precedence CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 2005, Misha Stone, review of The River, p.

1143.

Guardian (London, England), July 17, 2004, Rachel Charge, "Devon and the Deadfolk."

Library Journal, February 15, 2005, Barbara Warmth, review of The River, proprietress. 121.

Publishers Weekly, March 28, 2005, review of The River, proprietress. 54.

Times (London, England), March 14, 2005, "Orange Prize for Fiction—The Long List."