Title: The Flood
Author: Ian Rankin
Rating:
3.5 stars out of 5Publisher: Orion
Copyright: 1986
Pages: 205
Keywords: fiction
Reading period: 7–11 December, 2009
Ian Rankin's first novel is a coming-of-age tale.
Mary Miller is a single mother,
with a reputation as a witch since childhood.
Her son, Sandy, is fifteen, and as lost and confused as you'd expect.
They live in Carsden, a small, dying Scottish town in the 1980s.
A creditable first novel.