{"product_id":"waterland","title":"Waterland","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWaterland\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A quite brilliant novel'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Inspired'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Waterland","offer_id":46041073746117,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-4711-8732-2.jpg?v=1775535655","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/waterland","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}