{"product_id":"9781398520356-waterland","title":"Waterland","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eLAST ORDERS \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eMOTHERING SUNDAY.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaterland\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A quite brilliant novel’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Inspired’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535803031926,"sku":"9781398520356","price":18.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31763820.jpg?v=1774283301","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398520356-waterland","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}