The Drowning The Drowning

The Drowning

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Publisher Description

May 1944: dawn in the Bay of Biscay. A U-boat lies crippled on the seabed. Within earshot of the warship that sank her, a solitary survivor breaks the surface. Injured, in shock, hypothermic, his life-vest torn, he cries out for help.

The captain is on the bridge and brings his binoculars to bear.

The order he gives sets off a train of consequences reaching down through the landscape of post-war, post-colonial Britain, changing not only his own life and the lives of his men, but those of civilians ashore and of children yet unborn.

Spanning seventy years, set in England and in Nigeria during the Biafran crisis, this is a sweeping, compulsive story about conscience and selfishness and the far-reaching damage that cruelty can do.

"The Drowning" is the latest novel from this award-winning author.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
May 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
515
Pages
PUBLISHER
Richard Herley
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Boysmumas ,

The Drowning

By Boysmumas

As with all this authors novels this was excellent. But so sad that these two people could never be with each other. Very powerful and meaningful.

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