
The Dark Flood Rises
A Novel
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Anna Bentinck
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England.
Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East.
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A lyrical, expansive exploration of aging
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The Dark Flood Rises
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Very well written and insightful
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View of Aging?
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This book is so thought provoking, so beautifully written, so expansive that I find it difficult to decide just where to start with this review. Filled with the contradictions, the conflicts and the complexity of everyday life the book presents an incredibly wide angled view. Using a web of connected characters Drabble teases apart the thorny topics of life lived, youth, aging and death. She uses the book to look at choices, decisions and random chance--really the vagaries of life. The improbability of how each life changes, develops over time and intertwines with others are key themes. In addition, hard life lessons and concepts of responsibility for ourselves and others are explored.
Just in case this all sounds too heavy handed be aware the book is also filled with beauty, art, color, friendship and family. There are wonderful descriptions of England and of the volcanic beauty of the Canary Islands. I was swept up by the characters, their histories, their thoughts and experiences. Drabble does a fantastic job of musing about all these deep concepts through her characters---adeptly using their actions and thoughts as vehicles. To me, the book wasn't preachy or lecturing. There are no quick and easy answers offered.
This to me is fiction at its best. Thoughtful, intelligent and written by a master. Simply fantastic and not to be missed. Be sure to put your thinking cap on first though--Drabble expects the reader to do a good bit of the work here. Trust me it's worth it. Extraordinary and superb.
Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
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Like a piano piece that evokes sentiments
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