Waterland
Synopsis
Tom Crick is a history teacher, but the history that absorbs him is his own and his family’s. Driven by a marital crisis and the provocation of one of his pupils, he forsakes his teaching to relate the story of his family who have lived in the Fens since the 18th century. The past, with its secrets and oddities, hangs heavy on him, pushing him towards a heartbreaking new disaster in his life.
Author Biography
Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. His novels include Waterland (shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1983) which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Last Orders (1996), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Graham Swift is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.
