num_pages: 385
description: 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 Cromwell...Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts, this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
language: English
title: Ulverton
titlecomplete: Ulverton
genres: Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Historical, Novels
ratings_count: 611
places: Derbyshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited