Set on the Fenland coast in 1946, with its limitless skies and limited outlook, an engineer, an outsider, comes to oversee the demolition of the now defunct gun emplacements. Local suspicions are justified when he befriends a Dutch Jew and a German POW. This is a compelling portrait of loss, the loneliness of grief, and the narrowness of lives moulded by forces as impersonal as the wind and waves that perpetually undermine and reshape the coastline.
(Kate Hobson - bwl 21 November 2003 ) |
