The Wake of the Storm

London England: Michael Joseph, 1983. Hardback. First Edition. Very slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. In a remote corner of north-west England, where shining rivers race towards the sea, an Atlantic salmon waits the coming of the rain, and the flood waters that will speed her on her life's errand; an otter seeks his destiny; a young and beautiful girl flees to escape the memory of a horror that threatens to unbalance her mind. In the wake of the storm that follows, their fates are to be interwoven, along with those of Scarr, a middle-aged recluse who farms a smallholding and lives off the produce of the land he loves, and Brian Beck, the young local veterinary surgeon. The tranquility of their lives in the close-knit conservative community is threatened by the drama as it slowly unfolds, and tragedy seems inevitable. Yet this is not just a story about people, or animals, or the remote and beautifull country in which they live. It is essentially an evocative story of what Ewen Clarkson's many admirers have come to recognise, if now know, as the livigng earth. Illustrations. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Edward Mortelmans. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.