The Knot

After the tragic death of his much-loved first wife Anys, Henry falls in love again and brings Frances home to Lytes Cary. She struggles to come to terms with life in the remote rural setting of the Levels in Somerset, and feels the threat of the watery landscape despite Henry''s efforts to show her how the landscape he loves can bring her happiness. Henry''s father is not happy about his second marriage however, and the tensions within the family grow. Just as Henry finds a precarious equilibrium, in his intellectual and emotional lives, this sense of balance is shattered by his father''s unexpected death and the unleashed malevolence of Henry''s step-mother, Joan Young, begins.

About the author

Jane Borodale studied site-specific sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art. She was recently Leverhulme writer-in-residence at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex. Her first novel The Book of Fires was shortlisted for the Orange New Writers Prize, and she lives in the West Country with her husband and two children.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Borodale, Borodale Jane
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9780007313334
• ISBN: 978-0-00-731333-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction