TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rankin,Ian
TI  - The flood
SN  - 9781846173103
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leicester
PB  - Thorpe, Charnwood
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Fife
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Coal mines and mining
KW  - Fife (Scotland)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Adult
N2  - 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
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