Salvage : 9781847081087 : 06 Jul 2009 : Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Fiction Prize, this is a remarkably assured, suspenseful, and psychologically rich first novel about the secrets that unravel when a couple find a diamond ring?with a finger attached?washed up on a beach On the brink of scandal, five characters bound by marriage, friendship, and lust attempt to rescue what is most important to them. Through interwoven narratives, the dangers of our personal fictions are explored in a dark, compelling mystery that begins on a stretch of the desolate Welsh coast, when Elly Kent discovers a ring?with a finger still attached. Written in the brilliantly vivid, vernacular prose of everyday lives, this is a taut, engrossing study of betrayal, self-justification, and the consequences of rewriting the past.