num_pages: 672
description: In Waterland, Tom Crick, a history teacher in the Fenlands, is driven by a marital crisis and the provocation of one of his pupils to forsake his teaching and relate the story of his family, who have lived in the Fens since the eighteenth century. In Last Orders, four men once close to jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.
language: English
title: Waterland
titlecomplete: Waterland
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 9037
places: The Fens
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Picador