Shuttlecock

Perfectly controlled superbly written. Waterland is original compelling and narration of the highest order Guardian In the years since its first publication in 1983 Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentiethcentury British literature a visionary tale of Englands Fen country a sinuous meditation on the workings of history and a family story startling in its detail and universal in its reach. This edition includes an introduction by the author written to celebrate the books 25th anniversary. Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful serious and intelligent novel admirably ambitious and original Observer A 300page tour de force . . . A burst of exuberant fictive energy Evening Standard Waterland is a formidably intelligent book animated by an impressive angry pity at what human creatures are capable of doing to one another in the name of love and need. The most powerful novel I have read for some time New York Review of Books