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Ulverton

(1992)
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A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative, often using dialect or the true demotic voice.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"The most interesting first novel I have read these last years." - John Fowles


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