{"product_id":"9781471187322","title":"Waterland","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Swift, Graham\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 11 July 2019 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd (Scribner UK) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 512 pages\u003cbr\u003e182 x 166 x 37 | 466g\u003cp\u003eThe 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaterland 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A quite brilliant novel' Daily Telegraph'Inspired' New York Times  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swift, Graham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465692254392,"sku":"9781471187322","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781471187322.jpg?v=1734704164","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781471187322","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}