FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY.
One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories . . .
Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. It is also a book about beer, eels, the French Revolution, the end of the world, windmills, will-o'-the-wisps, murder, love, education, curiosity and-supremely-the malign and merciful element of water.
'A quite brilliant novel' Daily Telegraph
'Inspired' New York Times
| ISBN: | 9781398520356 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2022 |
| Author: | Graham Swift |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Audio an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK |
| Format: | CD-Audio |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY. One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy.
Waterland features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Waterland was written by Graham Swift and published by Simon & Schuster Audio an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK