Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the
boundaries of the novel form. Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting
himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London
barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria,
who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen.
It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got
himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the
river, seems less and less theoretical . . . Meanwhile,
Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mother's house,
trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother?
Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field
behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old
Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle
to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again,
unnoticed in the shadows around them.
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M.John Harrison
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