The Drowning

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Richard Herley ISBN: 9781458017468
Publisher: Richard Herley Publication: May 29, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Richard Herley
ISBN: 9781458017468
Publisher: Richard Herley
Publication: May 29, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

May 1944: dawn in the Bay of Biscay. A U-boat lies crippled on the seabed. Within earshot of the warship that sank her, a solitary survivor breaks the surface. Injured, in shock, hypothermic, his life-vest torn, he cries out for help.

The captain is on the bridge and brings his binoculars to bear.

The order he gives sets off a train of consequences reaching down through the landscape of post-war, post-colonial Britain, changing not only his own life and the lives of his men, but those of civilians ashore and of children yet unborn.

Spanning seventy years, set in England and in Nigeria during the Biafran crisis, this is a sweeping, compulsive story about conscience and selfishness and the far-reaching damage that cruelty can do.

“The Drowning” is the latest novel from this award-winning author.

Extent: 125,200 words (about 417 conventional pages)

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May 1944: dawn in the Bay of Biscay. A U-boat lies crippled on the seabed. Within earshot of the warship that sank her, a solitary survivor breaks the surface. Injured, in shock, hypothermic, his life-vest torn, he cries out for help.

The captain is on the bridge and brings his binoculars to bear.

The order he gives sets off a train of consequences reaching down through the landscape of post-war, post-colonial Britain, changing not only his own life and the lives of his men, but those of civilians ashore and of children yet unborn.

Spanning seventy years, set in England and in Nigeria during the Biafran crisis, this is a sweeping, compulsive story about conscience and selfishness and the far-reaching damage that cruelty can do.

“The Drowning” is the latest novel from this award-winning author.

Extent: 125,200 words (about 417 conventional pages)

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