Book description
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It
is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different
voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers
home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth
century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose,
a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate
company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell...
Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations
and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the
unrecorded history of England.
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel,
Ulverton
, was published in 1992, and he has written nine others - most recently
Flight
- two collections of stories and five books of poetry. His new
translation of
Madame Bovary
has just been published by Vintage. He lives in France with his wife
and family.
