![]() ![]() ![]() The longer I left it the more I felt that I should read it and subsequently the less attractive that prospect became.Īlas, having not much else to do whilst at home this summer I finally cracked. ![]() Since then we have been engaged in a long and strained stand-off it would stare out at me from my more pretentious book shelf, inhabited by many other classic books that I have also yet to read. However its setting, in what the book itself describes as the monotonous flatland of the English Fens, proved too uninspiring to merit my attention whilst I was basking in the freedom of my wider-reading orientated English literature A Level. I first bought the book back in my hazy, idealistic days of Sixth Form, with every intention of reading it to better understand postmodern literature. Waterland has been described as one of the finest pieces of fiction written in the 1980’s and has been on my literary to-do list for a very long time. ![]()
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