The Flood
  • Published:
    2006
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    288
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Mary Miller had 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, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. Now, 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 teacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, 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. Dark, atmospheric and powerful, it is a remarkable debut from a remarkable author.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2006
    • Orion (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0752880942
    • ISBN13: 9780752880945
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    • Jan-2001
    • Orion (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0752883690
    • ISBN13: 9780752883694
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    • Jan-2007
    • Orion Publishing Group Limited
    • Audible
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    • Oct-2014
    • Orion Publishing Group
    • Audible



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