Haweswater
Haweswater by Sarah Hall, published by Faber in 2002, is a compelling narrative set in a remote dale in northern England during the mid-1930s. This first edition spans 267 pages and explores the impact of modernization on a centuries-old rural community. The story unfolds as Jack Liggett, a representative from a Manchester waterworks company, arrives with plans to create a vast new reservoir, threatening to flood the landscape and displace its inhabitants.
Readers will find a rich portrayal of the village’s struggle against impending change, as Liggett’s arrival complicates matters further through a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn, a strong local woman. The narrative captures the tension between progress and preservation, reflecting on themes of loss and resilience. With its focus on literature and contemporary issues, Haweswater presents a vivid depiction of a rural England that is rapidly disappearing.
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The prizewinning debut from Britain’s most exciting contemporary novelist.
In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged. But then Jack Liggett drives in from the city, the spokesman for a Manchester waterworks company with designs on the landscape for a vast new reservoir. The dale must be evacuated, flooded, devastated; its water pumped to the Midlands and its community left in ruins.
Liggett further compounds the village’s problems when he begins a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn, a local woman of force and character who is driven to desperate measures in an attempt to save the valley.
Told in luminous prose, with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been lost for many decades.
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