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It really is 1936 in a remote dale in the old northern region of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same, the Lightburn family has been immersed in the severe hill-farming tradition. A man from the town of Manchester will come, spokesman for a huge industrial project that will devastate both landscape and the local community. Mardale will be flooded to make a new reservoir, delivering drinking water to the Midland metropolitan areas. In the coming year this place of Lakeland will be evacuated and changed. Jack Liggett, the Waterworks' representative, further compounds the problems encountered by the town as he commences a stressed affair with Janet Lightburn. A woman of power and power of mind, her natural orthodoxy deeply affects him. Finally, in tragic circumstances, an extraordinary, desperate action on Janet's part makes an attempt to revive the valley to its previous state. Told in luminous prose with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that is disappearing for decades, and introduces a young storyteller of great imaginative and psychological electricity.Sarah Hall was created in Cumbria and currently lives in Norwich, Norfolk. She actually is the author of four novels: Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Military, and How to Car paint a Deceased Man; a assortment of short tales, The Beautiful Indifference; original radio dramas; and poetry. She's won several honors, like the Commonwealth Authors' Reward for Best First Book, the Betty Trask Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Reward, the Adam Tiptree, Jr. Award, the Border Hill University Short Story Reward, and has double been receiver of the Portico Reward. She's been shortlisted for the Man Booker Reward, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for research fiction, the BBC National Short Story Award, and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. This season she was called one of Granta's Best Young United kingdom Novelists.
