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The Flood

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One of Britain’s leading novelists in any genre –New Statesman Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn–a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, she was initially treated with sympathy. But all that changed when the young man who pushed her in died in an accident down the mines just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. Now, many years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. But the search for happiness isn’t easy. Both mother and son are gradually being forced to come to terms with the past and a dark secret from Mary’s childhood. All this in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images–of decay and regrowth, of fire and water–of the flood. The Flood is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is, it’s dark, atmospheric and powerful–a remarkable debut from a remarkable author . . . No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin –Times Literary Supplement Arguable Scotland’s finest living writer –The Times Rankin is a master of his craft –Independent On Sunday

About Author

AKA Jack Harvey.Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards

Author

Ian Rankin

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9781628158489

Language

English

Pages

181

Publication Date

04-14-2018

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

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