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A century hence, most of Britain is underwater, but there are still academics who look back on the poets of the 21st century with nostalgic longing. A family drama, a buried treasure adventure, a meditation on memory, and a love letter to the humanities.Isobel
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PRE-ORDER NOW Dispatches 18th June
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again.
For generations, people speculate about its message. 2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century.
When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.