Title: Haweswater
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social aspects, Social conditions, Rural industries, Social aspects of Rural industries, Country life, Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general
Places: Cumbria (England), Westmorland (England)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6108.A43 H38 2002