Reservoir 13: A Novel

Reservoir 13: A Novel

<b><p>Winner of the Costa Novel Award<br>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice<br>Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, <i>Kirkus</i>, and <i>Los Angeles Review</i></p></b> <p>Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.<br><br>As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, <i>Reservoir 13</i> explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside.</p>