About the Book: Waterland
A much-loved classic of twentieth-century British literature
With an introduction by John Burnside
Shortlisted for the 1983 Booker prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows
neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the
story-telling animal.
Tom Crick is a passionate teacher, but before he is forced into retirement by
scandal, he has one last history lesson to deliver: his own. Spanning more than
200 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a
visionary tale