![]() 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. Waterland 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. ![]() ![]() 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. One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner ![]()
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