’Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as MobyDick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful., serious and intet!.igent novet, admirabl.y ambitious and original.’

--Observer

’Perfectl.y controt!.ed, superbly written. Waterland is original compelling and narration of the highest order’

Guardian

In the twenty-five years since it first appeared, Waterland has established itsel.f as one of the classics of the twentieth century. This anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the author, cetebrates a novet that is a visionary tare of England’s Fen country, a sinuous meditation on the workings of history, and a famity story startling in its detait and universal, in its reach.