Haweswater by Sarah Hall
It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same and the Lightburn family have been immersed in the harsh hill-farming tradition - unchanged by the advent of modernity. Then a man from the city of Manchester arrives, spokesman for a vast industrial project which will devastate both the landscape and the local community. Mardale will be flooded to create a new reservoir, supplying water to the Midland cities. In the coming year this corner of Lakeland will be evacuated and transformed. Jack Liggett, the Waterworks' representative, further compounds the problems faced by the village as he begins a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn. A woman of force and strength of mind, her natural orthodoxy deeply influences him. Finally, in tragic circumstances, a remarkable, desperate act on Janet's part attempts to restore the valley to its former state. Told in luminous prose with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been disappearing for decades. It is a novel about love, obsession and the destruction of a community, told with grace and artistry by a young storyteller of great imaginative and emotional power.
Sarah Hall has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize and is the award-winning author of seven novels and three short-story collections. Notably, she is the only author to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice - first in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and again in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571209255 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571209254 |
| Title | Haweswater |
| Author | Sarah Hall |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2002-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Eurasia 2003, Short-listed for The Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book) 2003 |
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