Ulverton

Synopsis of Ulverton

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton, a fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth-century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, and a 1980s real estate company discovers a soldier's skeleton dated to the time of Cromwell. Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations, and film scripts, this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.