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The Valley

A village that agreed to be flooded, and the people who came back to look at the water.

The Valley

The second novel, and the one that took the longest to find a shape. It is told by six people across sixty years, none of whom entirely agree about what happened.

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A village that agreed to be flooded, and the people who came back to look at the water.

Year
2020
Medium
Novel
Client
Independent literary publisher
Paperback, 384 pages
Published 2020
Longlisted for a national prize
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