Wasserland

Swift's award-winning novel tells the story of a radiant day when Henry Crick, a lockkeeper on a river in East Anglia, discovers the body of a 16-year-old boy. Freddie Parr fell victim to a tragic accident, the investigations reveal. However, his death is actually connected to events involving Crick's son Tom and his pregnant girlfriend, both guilty and innocent at the same time. Nearly forty years later, Tom Crick, a history teacher, will ask his surprised students to put away their books and notebooks. He wants to tell them about the marshes, the Cricks, and the Atkinsons—simple workers on one side, representatives of the rising bourgeoisie on the other. And about that fateful summer day in 1943. With a foreword by Graham Swift for the new edition.