Haweswater
/ Sarah Hall
- 1st Harper Perennial ed
- New York : Harper Perennial , 2006, c2002.
- 267 p.
A compelling novel set in 1936 in the remote village of Marsdale in the old county of Westmoreland, an industrial developer arrives who proposes to flood the dale to create a new reservoir, against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers, in a story of love, obsession, and the destruction of a community.