Haweswater
By: Sarah Hall.
Publisher: Faber; Faber and Faber
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Rural industries -- Social aspects -- Fiction; Cumbria (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Sarah Hall's first novel is set in 1936 in a remote dale in the old county of Westmoreland, and tells of the flooding of the dale to make way for a reservoir, against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers. It is a story of love, obsession and the destruction of a community.