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Author:

Tillyard, S. K., author.

Title:

Call upon the water / Stella Tillyard.

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Atria Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xv, 269 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Engineers--Fiction.
Wetlands--England--Fiction.
Wetlands--New York (State)--Fiction.
Land use--England--Fiction.
Land use--New York (State)--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Fiction.
New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels.

Other Titles:

Great level

Notes:

"A novel"--Book jacket. "Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 by Penguin Random House UK as The great level"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of wetlands known as the Great Level. Here he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her thrive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to the New World. In the American colonies, settlers on Manatus Eylandt are hungry for land to develop, and Jan's skills as an engineer are prized. His new life is rattled, however, on a spring morning when a boy delivers a note that prompts him to confront all he lost on the Great Level. Eliza has made it to the New World and is again drawing on Jan's teachings to bend the landscape--and find her own place of freedom."--page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

1982120967
9781982120962

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)