Wake of the Storm Tapa dura - 1983

London England: Michael Joseph, 1983. Hardback. First Edition. Very slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. In a remote corner of north-west England, where shining rivers race towards the sea, an Atlantic salmon waits the coming of the rain, and the flood waters that will speed her on her life's errand; an otter seeks his destiny; a young and beautiful girl flees to escape the memory of a horror that threatens to unbalance her mind. In the wake of the storm that follows, their fates are to be interwoven, along with those of Scarr, a middle-aged recluse who farms a smallholding and lives off the produce of the land he loves, and Brian Beck, the young local veterinary surgeon. The tranquility of their lives in the close-knit conservative community is threatened by the drama as it slowly unfolds, and tragedy seems inevitable. Yet this is not just a story about people, or animals, or the remote and beautifull country in which they live. It is essentially an evocative story of what Ewen Clarkson's many… Leer más