Tender sad funny & riveting this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers A man builds a tree house by a river in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you But sometimes they do Set in the flat & threatened fenland landscape where the sky is dominant & the sea lurks just beyond the horizon these delicate dangerous & sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried & unearthed of familiar places made strange & of lives where much is hidden much is at risk & tender moments are hard-won