{"product_id":"call-upon-the-water-9781982120979","title":"Call Upon the Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis \"story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love\" (Sarah Dunant, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by \"a lovely writer  who] can take your breath away\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the American colonies, profiteers are hungry for viable land to develop, and Jan's skills as an engineer are highly prized. His prosperous new life is rattled, however, on a spring morning when a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Great Level, and confront all that was lost there. Eliza has made it to the New World and is once again using the education Jan gave her to bend the landscape--this time to find her own place of freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks, \u003ci\u003eCall Upon the Water \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a haunting book with characters who stay with the reader as their lives unfold like a sea mist\" (Philippa Gregory, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNote: This book was published in the UK under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Great Level.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982120979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Stella Tillyard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38025425715381,"sku":"9781982120979","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bb50e628-a2d7-45cc-b1c1-767fb01c4327.jpg?v=1609187802","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/call-upon-the-water-9781982120979","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}