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Stunningly good. Captures the landscapes with a truly deft, water-colourist's touch. His ear for Norfolk cadence is extremely acute (Rose Tremain )
A powerful new voice. Funny, flavoursome . . . Page brilliantly evokes Norfolk's bleakness, the harsh round of the seasons (Independent )
A powerful new voice. Funny, flavoursome . . . Page brilliantly evokes Norfolk's bleakness, the harsh round of the seasons (Independent )
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The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the Jelf First Novel Award
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Finding a man buried up to his neck in mud. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Finding a man buried up to his neck in mud. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Living in Norfolk and having walked all the saltmarsh coast from Snettisham to Weybourne this book seemed less of a novel and more of a biography. Some of the characters described I have met, in real life. It all made perfect sense - I too have been 'chased' by a 'rag cloud' with the inevitable drenching to follow. If you spend enough time on the dunes and marshes you soon learn to read the clouds and sea; you have too. It is difficult to know what a stranger to this world would make of this book but I would recommend it unreservedly.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jeremy Page brilliantly catches the atmosphere and skies of N Norfolk in this book. If you have ever been to N Norfolk or are going this book is a must read, it is hugely evocative of both the N Norfolk salt marshes and the fens and is a wonderful read.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The opening of this novel is utterly captivating and throughout it is a feast for all the senses, taste, smell, touch as well as conjuring exceptionally vivid pictures.
Intentionally or otherwise, the author seems to me to have caught the zeitgeist of interest in clouds, regional food, and shed science. There were places where it started to lose me in dreamworlds and it is unfortunate that a recurring theme is based on a misapprehension of how belly buttons are created (have I intrigued you yet?) but these detracted very little from the enjoyment.
Fundamentally this is a sad, bleak, flat story of mud and Fen and being dragged down but contains so much
hope within it and the sky is always there. A very readable piece of literature.
Intentionally or otherwise, the author seems to me to have caught the zeitgeist of interest in clouds, regional food, and shed science. There were places where it started to lose me in dreamworlds and it is unfortunate that a recurring theme is based on a misapprehension of how belly buttons are created (have I intrigued you yet?) but these detracted very little from the enjoyment.
Fundamentally this is a sad, bleak, flat story of mud and Fen and being dragged down but contains so much
hope within it and the sky is always there. A very readable piece of literature.
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