{"product_id":"9781471187322","title":"Waterland","description":"\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 . . . 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. 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. `A quite brilliant novel' Daily Telegraph`Inspired' New York Times �\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graham Swift","offers":[{"title":"512 pages \/ 11\/07\/2019 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57107591233911,"sku":"9781471187322","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781471187322.jpg?v=1779302406","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781471187322","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}