Waterland by Graham Swift

Waterland by Graham SwiftThe 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 historyand tell stories . . . Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a

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