
Waterland
by Graham Swift
1983 · literary fiction · adult
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Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
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Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
Set in
- ★Cambridgeshire Fens · United Kingdom★ primaryThe desolate Cambridgeshire Fens (near Ely and King's Lynn); history teacher Tom Crick tells his pupils a personal and r
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