Waterland Av Graham Swift

<B>The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are</B><BR/><BR/> 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 . . .<BR/><BR/><I>Waterland</I> 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.<BR/><BR/><B>‘A quite brilliant novel’ </B><I>Daily Telegraph</I><BR/><BR/><B>‘Inspired’ </B><I>New York Times</I><BR/>