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.
- ISBN10 0374280312
- ISBN13 9780374280314
- Publish Date 1 January 1993 (first published 11 May 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 390
- Language English