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Fergal is helping his mother nurse a bedridden woman on a Yorkshire farm. In his free time he roams the hills and dales, and there meets a girl, Alex, sensing at once the peculiar obsession with the nearby reservoir that grips her and everyone else in the valley. As rainless heat settles over the parched land, everyone is watching the reservoir, seeing the water level fall day by day and waiting - as if something undefinable will rise from its depths. The undercurrents threaten Fergal too, with memories of his failure to help a drowning friend, and his belief that soon he will have to help Alex. This time he must not fail.
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Mrs Helliwell, an old lady with the secret of a death in her soul, needs to be nursed through the long, arid summer and employs Fergal's mother, Madge, to do the job. Fergal jumps at the chance to flee to the remote farm with his mum, hoping to escape from "real life" and his guilty conscience. But as he becomes increasingly torn between his developing passion for the mysterious Alex and his affection for Mrs Helliwell, a heat wave begins to take its toll and a village, once drowned in the name of progress, gradually reappears as the reservoir that took its place subsides.
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Undercurrents is a fine piece of work from a fine writer who never lets the reader off the hook, constantly firing up the intensity of an atmosphere filled with the agonizingly raw emotions of three very different people, each setting out on a search for peace of mind. --Susan Harrison
Another highly-charged story ... Oldham is a thrilling writer. Her prose is uncluttered, poised, precise and evocative (Times Educational Supplement)
June Oldham deploys her impressive powers of description and insightful portrayal of character in another highly-charged story about revelation and twisted relationships [...] Oldham is a thrilling writer. (TES)
June Oldham deploys her impressive powers of description and insightful portrayal of character in another highly-charged story about revelation and twisted relationships [...] Oldham is a thrilling writer. (TES)
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- PublisherHodder Children's Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0340651474
- ISBN 13 9780340651476
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages208
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