Skin

Andrew's wonderful second novel is the deeply involving story of a difficult childhood, a search for a long-missing parent, how we view our bodies and the secrets we keep even from those who know us best.

75 Books for 2021, i Newspaper

A sweeping coming-of-age narrative whose on-point themes of gender and sexuality are embedded in evocative descriptions of London during the 1980s, and of boomtime Ireland a decade later

Mail Online

A gloriously raw and watery adventure, fraught with fluidity, teen-angst and identity; an update of Ovid's transformations and Catcher in the Rye, re-gendered in the Hampstead ponds and the deeper waters, far beyond...

Philip Hoare

I felt a real sense of loss when I read the last page. I didn't want this book to end. Andrew's writing is tender, beautiful, perfectly weighted. A writer we are immensely lucky to have.

Daisy Johnson

An atmospheric creation... Skin stirs with references to water myths, from selkies and mermaids to sirens and cursed bodies of water.

Bidisha, Observer

This evocative and sensitive tale is grounded by the authentic complexity of its characters... Inspired.

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Artfully paced, with queer undercurrents, this novel is tender and totally enveloping.

Uli Lenart, Attitude

A gorgeous folkloric novel of water and love... You should read this and you should also read Kerry's Swansong. It's a rare thing to see folklore woven into beautiful, tender human reality with such delicacy and skills

Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk and Mischief Acts

Kerry Andrew is that rare thing, a natural storyteller with one of those quietly confident voices that takes you by the cuff and leads you down unexpected passages. In the finest tradition of quest tales, Skin's protagonist sets out in search of one thing and ends by discovering quite another and both they and the reader grow a little as a result

Patrick Gale

A brilliant, moving, tender, queer story. Highly recommended

Meg-John Barker, author of Queer: A Graphic Guide