What We Can Know

In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller. Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it Elif Shafak A gripping page-turner Observer It gave me so much pleasure New York Times2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message. 2119: With the UK s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.Tom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past. What We Can Know may well have created a new genre Sunday Times Brilliantly plotted In What We Can Know, the past is an irresistible riddle Washington Post Propulsive entertaining and enjoyable Financial Times A dazzling novel Independent Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful A wonderful book Kaliane Bradley A poignant love letter to the vanishing past Guardian*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, New Yorker, i Paper and Barack Obama*