Fergal is helping his mother nurse a bedridden woman on a Yorkshire farm. In his free time he roams the hills and dales, and there meets a girl, Alex, sensing at once the peculiar obsession with the nearby reservoir that grips her and everyone else in the valley. As rainless heat settles over the parched land, everyone is watching the reservoir, seeing the water level fall day by day and waiting - as if something undefinable will rise from its depths. The undercurrents threaten Fergal too, with memories of his failure to help a drowning friend, and his belief that soon he will have to help Alex. This time he must not fail.
- ISBN10 0340651474
- ISBN13 9780340651476
- Publish Date 11 August 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Children's Books
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English