Waiting for the Flood, Alexis Hall
Waiting for the Flood, Alexis Hall
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Waiting for the Flood
A Spires Story

Author: Alexis Hall

Series: Spires

Narrator: Alexander Doddy

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2016

Synopsis

People come as well as go.Twelve years ago, Edwin Tully came to Oxford and fell in love with a boy named Marius. He was brilliant. An artist. It was going to be forever.Two years ago, it ended.Now Edwin lives alone in the house they used to share. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past.Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin’s quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons, but he offers Edwin the hope of something he thought he would never have again.As the two men grow closer in their struggle against the rising waters, Edwin learns he can’t protect himself from everything—and sometimes he doesn't need to try.

About Alexis Hall

Alexis Hall is the author of numerous novels, including The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, the Arden St. Ives series, and the Spires series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on February 21, 2015

I really struggled with this one, and I think I have to face up to a hard truth that I've been denying for some time: Maybe Alexis Hall isn't the writer for me. It really pains me to admit that likely reality because I loved Glitterland, but the three books of his that I read after Glitterland have al......more

Goodreads review by Noah on April 12, 2023

Despite being written in a dreamlike prose with a melancholic tone, this is a deeply uplifting story about second chances. And while it might be played out, I will always love a weather-based metaphor. And and and… not to be hyperbolic, but this is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. I k......more

Goodreads review by Lois on October 22, 2016

Goodness, I enjoyed this, mm (also m/m), novella I think. Read in part of an evening, and the story was well matched to its length. A short contemporary romance between a book conservator and an engineer (yay, my fave) in an Oxford winter flood. The flood provided the necessary mild menace to get our......more

Goodreads review by Lisa *-* GiViNg It To YoU on February 22, 2015

Just A Smidge under 4 Stars Quintessentially Very British I smiled at him, wondering if it was acceptable practice in suburban Oxford to climb a man like rampant honeysuckle. Edwin Tully spends fairly much most of his time in solitude, in the house he shared with his ex-partner Marius.......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on February 21, 2024

Not Boyfriend Material, but A Lady for a Duke is my favorite Alexis Hall book. By far. Its tenderness and the heartbreaking moments imbued with so much love make this book a gem. I know Alexis Hall writes lots of different romances, and most of them are witty and funny, or even over the top. But he’......more

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