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Owen Brand, a twelve‑year‑old in the spring of 1971, moves with his family to the riverside town of Middlecross hoping to leave poverty behind. The new setting offers him the chance for a fresh start and a way out of isolation. Soon he joins a gang of local boys and meets Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of an alcoholic father. Walter Gribbs, an old watchman at the yacht club, and Hodgson Fisk, a vindictive farmer, become unspoken overseers of their summer adventures. When the boys discover a body washed up on the riverbank, the child’s accidental discovery sets off a chain of events that culminates in a year‑long cataclysm affecting the entire community.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Steven Erikson
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