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Ulverton

Ulverton

Author(s): Adam Thorpe

Location(s): Derbyshire

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 16th through 20th centuries

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans centuries. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell’s soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife’s nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier’s skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell…

Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.

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