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The Great Flood

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25 June 2020
192 pages
9780330420280
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

How we visualise climate catastrophe tends toward the epic, the exotic . . . Platt instead locates its effects in the everyday: the flooding experienced by England’s picture postcard towns and occasionally decrepit coastal settlements . . . The Great Flood makes the global local in the same way that the climate emergency does. Platt’s writing combines sharp reportage with a poet’s eye for a striking image that vividly captures the otherworldly, waterlogged landscapes he travels through . . . “When it comes to climate change, we are all to blame.”
A reporter of fearless imagination
[An] engrossing account of floods ancient and modern
Fascinating