The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are One summer morning in 1943, lockkeeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteenyearold 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 historyand 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, willothewisps, murder, love, education, curiosity andsupremelythe malign and merciful element of water.A quite brilliant novel Daily TelegraphInspired New York Times

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 182 x 166 x 37

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