Ulverton

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 Cromwell...