Salvage - Hardcover

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Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (1985 James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (1986 runner-up for the 1986 Guardian Fiction Prize), A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006), The Kingdom of Ashes and In Zodiac Light, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010.

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The far north of England: one hundred years in the future, the Gulf Stream has ceased, the climate is in turmoil. Civil servant Quinn has been appointed to conduct an audit on a remote area of land designated for a brand-new model town. As he arrives to greet the local developer, Quinn realizes his presence is unwelcome. Soon he is immersed in a quagmire of corruption that will put his integrity to the ultimate test.

Quinn meets the winners and the losers: Owen, a suicidal farmer whose every last pig, chicken and sheep has been culled after a slew of viruses; Winston, a disillusioned journalist turned alcoholic with a gallery of photos that show dangerous levels of water below the site; and Pollard, the local man of God whose faith is for sale. But it is Anna, Quinn's sometime girlfriend, in charge of filling the dead cattle pits, who faces the deepest abyss of all. And as the heavens open once again, the mountains of toxic soil that surround the site slowly begin to shift.

An all-too-plausible Orwellian vision depicting what is likely to unfurl if climate change moves implacably on, Robert Edric's latest novel is a devastating portrait of man's ever-quickening descent into a self-inflicted hell. It is Edric's finest novel yet.