
Waterland
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Narrated by:
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Alex Jennings
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By:
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Graham Swift
About this listen
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
©1983 Graham Swift (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, UK
DESERVES TO BE A CLASSIC
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Engrossing
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Murky, nauseating and brilliant
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fascinating and bizarre, unputdownable
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An exceptional read
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Much more than a vivid history of the Fenlands
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Mesmerising
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probably the best book I've ever read/ listened to
brilliant story telling
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An astonishing work
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An engrossing landscape
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