by IanRankin (Author)
Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, a drama glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Export ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0752873105
ISBN 13: 9780752873107
Book Overview: The book that launched Ian Rankin's phenomenal career. Copies of the orginal edition of THE FLOOD sell for well over 1000 on the collectors' market. THE FLOOD has the potential to be perfect 'event publishing' - a must for Rankin fans and book collectors. We have sold almost a quarter of a million copies of FLESHMARKET CLOSE in trade editions so far Ian has an incredibly high profile. As well as being a regular on the bestseller charts in the UK and worldwide, he is also a frequent contributor to a huge range of major magazines, papers, TV and radio programmes.