Waterland - Graham Swift Publication Date:11/07/2019The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are 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
some deals are only made in the shadows
and memory
The point is to share something I love with someone else in a way that makes them want to love it too
Crafted with complexity and woven with reverent yearning' KIKA HATZOPOULOU
But then the Murphys plus children arrive
his house destroyed
cross-referenced against full-colour
Lizzie Hardwicke
gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled 'monsters'
British gold mining in South Africa
' REBECCA ROSSREADERS ABSOLUTELY ADORE A STUDY IN DROWNING
I powered through it in two days