Adam Thorpe Ulverton (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: UlvertonCondition: NewEAN: 9780099573449ISBN: 9780099573449Publisher: Vintage ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/06/2012Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 27mmItem Weight: 298gAuthor: Adam ThorpeLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 009957344XDescription: Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead' Hilary MantelAt the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell... Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts, this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM ROBERT MACFARLANECountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionTopic: Historical FictionRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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