About the Book: Wake (JM Classics)
A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is
riveting Eimear McBride, New Statesman
In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was
uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned
on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla
fighters took up arms against the French occupiers.
In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, the
unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner, bears witness to the end of his
world. Accompanied by a band