Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include
Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner, 1986),
A New Ice Age (Guardian Prize Runner-up, 1986),
The Book Of The Heathen (WH Smith Literary Award, 2000),
Peacetime and
Gathering the Water (both longlisted for the Booker Prize) and
In Zodiac Light, shortlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC award. He lives in Yorkshire.
It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is heartily resented by these locals, and he himself is increasingly unconvinced both of the wisdom...
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