β Scribed by M. John Harrison
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Shaw had a breakdown, but heβs getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctorβs daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen.β¨ β¨ Itβs not ideal, but itβs a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadnβt got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical . . .β¨ β¨ Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead motherβs house, trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies?β¨ β¨ As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them.
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Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn
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