Shaw is rebuilding his life after a breakdown. A rented room, a job on a crumbling London barge, and a fractured relationship with Victoria, a doctor’s daughter who grew up steeped in death. It isn’t much, but it’s enough—until shadows on the river begin whispering of conspiracies that feel less like theories and more like truth.
Victoria, meanwhile, is renovating her mother’s Midlands house. The neighbors are strange. The stories are stranger. A missing waitress. A pond no one dares approach. And an obsessive fascination with The Water Babies that runs like a curse through the town.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is haunting, enigmatic, and brilliant—literary fiction that seeps under your skin.
