The flood /
by Rankin, Ian.
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BookPublisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2006Edition: Large print edition.Description: 272 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781846173103; 1846173108.Subject(s): Marginality, Social -- Scotland -- Fife -- Fiction | Coal mines and mining -- Scotland -- Fife -- Fiction | Fife (Scotland) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Large type booksSummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Large Print - Adult | Southport Library | Large Print Adult Fiction | Available | 002992045X |
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.
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