The Flood - Ian Rankin

...this author Ian Rankin through the Rebus books and television series. This was however my first experience of his work. About the Author Ian Rankin was born in Fife, Scotland in 1960. He is the UK's Number 1 selling crime author. So far he has written 27 novels, of which his most successful have been the Rebus books. His first novel was indeed 'The Flood', which originally was planned for Radio 4's Short story section but was considered too long ...
...his services to literature. The Storyline of the book The book is set in a small Scottish town called Carsden. Whose traditional industry of coal mining was closing down due to it being uneconomic to mine there any longer. This left the people in the town both unemployed and bitter. It is written in three parts: 1963-1969 The Falling Time, 1985 Sandy and 1985 The Flood. It centres around two characters the first is Mary Miller. Who due to an ...

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Ian Rankin is one of the most popular modern scottish authors, his work is generally best known for the character John Rebus, and the accompanying TV shows, but before Rebus was The Flood. A novel set in a small Fife village, during the period when the traditional local industries were closing down. But it opens during the time when the local coal mine was still active, with a history of the female lead, Mary Miller. The book is more the story of ...
...Miller is considered to be the local witch. Dealing with the whispered rumours about the death of the boy responsible for pushing her in to the hot burn (a chemical run off from the coal mine) the silver hair that marks her as different, being an unwed mother in the late 1960's as well as the witchcraft Mary has alot to deal with. Sandy Miller is Mary's son, without a father figure he seems to have grown up to be normal young man, he has fallen ...

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