The flood /
Rankin, Ian.
The flood / Ian Rankin. - Large print edition. - Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2006. - 272 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Mary Miller is an outcast. As a girl she had plunged into the hot burn - a torrent of chemical run-off from the local mine. Fished out, half-dead, any sympathy for her disappeared when the boy who pushed her in died in a mining accident two weeks later. From then on, she was regarded with suspicion by her God-fearing community. Years later, now a mother, Mary is caught up in a faltering affair with a schoolteacher. Meanwhile Sandy, her bastard son, has fallen in love with a homeless girl. Both mother and son must come to terms with the past, in the knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas - one of fire and of the flood.
Adult.
9781846173103 1846173108
Marginality, Social--Scotland--Fife--Fiction.
Coal mines and mining--Scotland--Fife--Fiction.
Fife (Scotland)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction
Large type books.
The flood / Ian Rankin. - Large print edition. - Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2006. - 272 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Mary Miller is an outcast. As a girl she had plunged into the hot burn - a torrent of chemical run-off from the local mine. Fished out, half-dead, any sympathy for her disappeared when the boy who pushed her in died in a mining accident two weeks later. From then on, she was regarded with suspicion by her God-fearing community. Years later, now a mother, Mary is caught up in a faltering affair with a schoolteacher. Meanwhile Sandy, her bastard son, has fallen in love with a homeless girl. Both mother and son must come to terms with the past, in the knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas - one of fire and of the flood.
Adult.
9781846173103 1846173108
Marginality, Social--Scotland--Fife--Fiction.
Coal mines and mining--Scotland--Fife--Fiction.
Fife (Scotland)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction
Large type books.