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At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell...Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England. "Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead". (Hilary Mantel).

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Ulverton
• Author: Adam Thorpe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780099573449
• ISBN: 009957344X
• ID: 01197823
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2012

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