NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ' An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight So she dyes her hair enjoys every glass of red wine drives restlessly around the country & lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of & as each of them
- her pampered ex Claude old friend Jo flamboyant son Christopher & earnest daughter Poppet
- seeks happiness in their own way what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous & profound darkly sardonic & moving The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life & a good death