The Reservoir Series - Book 1
Reservoir 13
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
Wall Street Journal Pick of best new mysteries
A Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year selection
An Indie Next List selection
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2017
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year selection for 2017
One of the New Yorker’s Best Books That Deserved more Attention in 2017
Winner of the Costa Book Award for Best Novel
A New York Times Editor’s Choice of the Week
Winner of the British Book Award for Book of the Year
Finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award
In midwinter in an English village, a teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks, and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.
As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths, secrets kept and exposed, livelihoods made and lost, small kindnesses, and unanticipated betrayals.
An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside.
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