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020 _a9781846173103
020 _a1846173108
040 _aUkLcULP
100 1 _aRankin, Ian.
245 1 4 _aThe flood /
_cIan Rankin.
250 _aLarge print edition.
260 _aLeicester :
_bThorpe, Charnwood,
_c2006.
300 _a272 p. (large print) ;
_c24 cm.
520 _aMary 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.
521 _aAdult.
650 0 _aMarginality, Social
_zScotland
_zFife
_vFiction.
650 0 _aCoal mines and mining
_zScotland
_zFife
_vFiction.
651 0 _aFife (Scotland)
_vFiction.
655 7 _aDetective and mystery fiction
_2lcgft
655 0 _aLarge type books.
999 _c210508
_d210508
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