{"product_id":"9781471187322-waterland","title":"Waterland","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are\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":40944010166369,"sku":"9781471187322","price":8.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31801711.jpg?v=1734597514","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471187322-waterland","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}