The Dark Flood Rises

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Pub Date 13 Nov 2016 | Archive Date 3 Nov 2016

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NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'
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Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives around the country for her job with a housing charity and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes?

By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving,The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death. This triumphant, bravura novel takes in love, death, sun-drenched islands, poetry, Maria Callas, tidal waves, surprise endings - and new beginnings.

NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'
GUARDIANBEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'

Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every...


Advance Praise

• Drabble's brilliance . . . builds up a sense of wide horizons that one has never seen in quite the same way before - The Times• Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain electrifying - Spectator

• Drabble's brilliance . . . builds up a sense of wide horizons that one has never seen in quite the same way before - The Times• Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain...


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