About this book
Sarah Hall's first novel is set in 1936 in a remote dale in the old county of Westmoreland, and tells of the flooding of the dale to make way for a reservoir, against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers. It is a story of love, obsession and the destruction of a community.
- Fiction
- Social aspects
- Social conditions
- Rural industries
- Social aspects of Rural industries
- Country life
- Fiction, historical, general
- England, fiction
