Waterland by Graham Swift (Hardcover, 2019)

Simon & Schuster Ltd

WaterlandAuthor(s): Graham Swift\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Scribner UK\nISBN-13: 9781471192067, 978-1471192067\nSynopsis\nFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissuedfor the first time in Scribner\n\n?The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels by the winner of The Booker Prize\n\n 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 historyand tell stories . . .\n\nWaterland 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 ans