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The flood / Ian Rankin.

by Rankin, Ian.

Charnwood, 2006, c1986.

Women with social disabilities -- Fiction.

Marginality, Social -- Fiction.

Single mothers -- Fiction.

Accident victims -- Fiction.

Life change events -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Scotland -- Fiction.

Large print ed.

[252 p.] (large print) ; 23 cm.

Ian Rankin's first ever novel - unavailable for nearly twenty years and now republished with a brand-new introduction by the author.

"In 1986, a small Scottish publishing firm released a first novel by a talented young writer. Only a few hundred copies were printed but it was a literary milestone nonetheless. The book was THE FLOOD. The author was Ian Rankin... Mary Miller had 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, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. Now, 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 teacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, 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."--Orion.

Psychological fiction.

Bildungsromans.

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