num_pages: 114
description: People come as well as go. Twelve years ago Edwin Tully came to Oxford and fell in love with a boy named Marius. He was brilliant. An artist. It was going to be forever. Two years ago it ended. Now Edwin lives alone in the house they used to share. He tends to damaged books and faded memories trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns and the river spills into Edwins quiet world bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons but he offers Edwin the hope of something he thought he would never have again. As the two men grow closer in their struggle against the rising waters Edwin learns he cant protect himself from everything  and sometimes he doesn't need to try
language: English
title: Waiting for the Flood
publisher: Alexis Hall