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The Tale of Truthwater Lake

by Emma Carroll

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Juvenile Fiction. On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village . . . It's the near-future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. Of course, the government have put in the normal curfews for this kind of weather, and shops are forced to shut again. For Polly, it's the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down. Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt's eco lake-side house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up. As the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges. Swimming over the rooftops at midnight, Polly dives down and is suddenly able to breathe, to hear church bells and bird song . . . Polly has discovered an underwater gateway . . . to the past!.… (more)
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This has a framing narrative set in 2032. During an excessively hot English summer, Polly is sent to stay with her aunt by Truthwater Lake, which is drying up and revealing the remains of a village beneath. But the main story takes place in 1952, before that village was flooded to create a reservoir. Eleven-year-old Nellie is training for a chance to be the first child to swim the English channel.

Carroll ties the two storylines together quite neatly, but I found her portrayal of the past much more vivid and compelling than her imagined near-future. I hadn’t read about long-distance swimming before, nor about living somewhere set to be deliberately flooded, so that was interesting! ( )
  Herenya | Aug 4, 2023 |
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Juvenile Fiction. On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village . . . It's the near-future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. Of course, the government have put in the normal curfews for this kind of weather, and shops are forced to shut again. For Polly, it's the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down. Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt's eco lake-side house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up. As the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges. Swimming over the rooftops at midnight, Polly dives down and is suddenly able to breathe, to hear church bells and bird song . . . Polly has discovered an underwater gateway . . . to the past!.

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