Ulverton EPUB
by Adam Thorpe
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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 MACFARLANE
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:31/01/2012
- ISBN:9781448130061
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:31/01/2012
- ISBN:9781448130061