The flood : novel / Ian Rankin.
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TextPublication details: London : Orion, 2005, ©1986Description: xviii, 205 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0752873105; 9780752873107; 0752873091; 9780752873091Subject(s): Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Outcasts -- Fiction | Villages -- Scotland -- Fiction | Marginality, Social -- Scotland -- Fife -- Fiction | Coal mines and mining -- Scotland -- Fife -- Fiction | Coal mines and mining | Marginality, Social | Mothers and sons | Outcasts | Villages | Fife (Scotland) -- Fiction | Scotland | Scotland -- FifeGenre/Form: Fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Bildungsromans. DDC classification: [Fic] Summary: When she was ten, Mary Miller was pushed into the hot burn--a torrent of warm-chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Her hair turned white and she was subsequently regarded with a mixture of fear and fascination by her God-fearing community. Years later she is a single mother and is having a faltering affair. Her son Sandy has fallen in love with a homeless girl, but the search for happiness isn't easy, and both mother and son are gradually being forced to come to terms with a dark secret from Mary's childhood.
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Includes a new introduction by the author.
Originally published: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1986.
When she was ten, Mary Miller was pushed into the hot burn--a torrent of warm-chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Her hair turned white and she was subsequently regarded with a mixture of fear and fascination by her God-fearing community. Years later she is a single mother and is having a faltering affair. Her son Sandy has fallen in love with a homeless girl, but the search for happiness isn't easy, and both mother and son are gradually being forced to come to terms with a dark secret from Mary's childhood.
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