Surface tension

by Russell Celyn Jones

A porter in a London hospital, Mark does the job because he's always wanted to be a carer. The irony is, the only person he can feel for is his older sister, Geena. When illness provokes the discovery that Geena was adopted before his parents left South Africa, Mark must face his feelings for her.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Russell Celyn Jones is a British writer and academic, born in London and brought up in Swansea. He has written novels, mostly focused on crime and issues of guilt and morality, and also teaches creative writing.

Reviews

[Allison · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise sounded interesting, and the prose style was quite good, but it had that sense of a few characters just wandering through life which I find annoying, the 'thriller' aspect was really not very thrilling, and both Geena and Natasha as characters were given to spouting trite aphorisms and came across as self-centered, shallow and in need of a good smack. The main character was engaging and likeable (apart from his strange fixation on his sister); I just felt like he deserved a better story.