The Drowned Book
18 June 2015Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Helen Dunmore
Come for a walk down the river road,
For though you're all a long time dead
The waters part to let us pass
The way we'd go on summer nights
In the times we were children
And thought we were lovers.
The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved...
Details
18 June 201596 pages
9781447294030Imprint: Picador
Reviews
O'Brien's talent extends far beyond description . . . powerful, resonant and thought-provokingGuardian
It's almost as though he's seeing into a kind of pool in which the past is there, held in a sort of suspension . . . exhilaratingPeter Porter
