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The Flood - Ian Rankin

By Ian Rankin

Release Date: 2018-06-27

Genre: Detective Novels

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"One of Britain's leading novelists in any genre"
—New Statesman

Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn—a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, she was initially treated with sympathy. But all that changed when the young man who pushed her in died in an accident down the mines just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. 

Now, many years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. But the search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son are gradually being forced to come to terms with the past and a dark secret from Mary's childhood. All this in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images—of decay and regrowth, of fire and water—of the flood. 

The Flood is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is, it's dark, atmospheric and powerful—a remarkable debut from a remarkable author . . .

"No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin"
—Times Literary Supplement

"Arguable Scotland's finest living writer"
—The Times

"Rankin is a master of his craft"
—Independent On Sunday

The Flood - Ian Rankin

By Ian Rankin

Release Date: 2018-06-27

Genre: Detective Novels

(0 ratings)
Read Download
"One of Britain's leading novelists in any genre"
—New Statesman

Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn—a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, she was initially treated with sympathy. But all that changed when the young man who pushed her in died in an accident down the mines just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. 

Now, many years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. But the search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son are gradually being forced to come to terms with the past and a dark secret from Mary's childhood. All this in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images—of decay and regrowth, of fire and water—of the flood. 

The Flood is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is, it's dark, atmospheric and powerful—a remarkable debut from a remarkable author . . .

"No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin"
—Times Literary Supplement

"Arguable Scotland's finest living writer"
—The Times

"Rankin is a master of his craft"
—Independent On Sunday

More by Ian Rankin

The Complaints

Standing in Another Man's Grave

Resurrection Men

Rather Be the Devil

Saints of the Shadow Bible

Even Dogs in the Wild

In a House of Lies

Hide and Seek

A Song for the Dark Times

The Black Book

The Impossible Dead

A Question of Blood

Exit Music

Fleshmarket Alley

Mortal Causes

A Heart Full of Headstones

Let It Bleed

The Naming of the Dead

Midnight and Blue

The Beat Goes On

Watchman

Doors Open

Witch Hunt

Bleeding Hearts

The Dark Remains

The Dark Remains

Knots and Crosses

Forensic Psychology For Dummies

Blood Hunt

Bookshop Mysteries

The Travelling Companion

Strip Jack

Westwind

A Good Hanging

Tooth and Nail

The Falls

Set in Darkness

Meet and Greet

In the Nick of Time

Dead Souls

The Hanging Garden

The Flood

A Collection of Inspector Rebus Novels

Rebus: Long Shadows

John Rebus

The Heights

Daggers Drawn

Fleshmarket Close

Di noir in noir

Nudos y cruces

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