This Isn´t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: St

Set among the lowlands and levees, the fens and ditches that mark the spare landscape of eastern England, the stories expose lives where much is buried, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. The narrators of these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell us what they believe to be important-in language inflected with the landscape´s own understatement-while the real stories lie in what they unwittingly let slip.