![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. It is a glorious, bravura construct, producing story after story in a seemingly. ![]() Once begun, there is no stopping Waterland every part sets another part in motion. It has its oiled wheels, its cogs, its ratchets, its levers. 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. Three editions of the authors third novel, doing for the Fens of Northern. Waterland has the appearance of a magnificent engine, a shining and brilliant marvel of construction. ![]() One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are ![]()
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