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Praise for Shadowlands from Great Britain A beautifully written, intelligent book, and it is offered as a warning as well as a memorial.-- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesAn eloquent tour of lost communities...[Green] disinters their rich history and reimagines the lives of those who walked their streets...By doing so, he makes tangible the tragedy of their loss and the threat we all face from the climate crisis.-- P. D. Smith, GuardianFascinating...[A] sobering reminder of earthly transience...Shadowlands is a well-researched, highly readable history whose deepest import may be premonitory.-- Nat Segnit, TLSStartling...Often playful in tone, Shadowlands nonetheless has a serious purpose...[It] offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.-- Miranda Seymour, Financial TimesGripping...Shadowlands is both meticulously researched and vividly imagined. The author has a novelist's gift for bringing the past alive.-- Fiona Rintoul, The HeraldConsistently interesting [and] thought-provoking...Green's passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.-- Cal Flyn, The TimesThis is an outstanding book, bursting with fascinating information. It's unobtrusively poignant and gently philosophical.-- Jake Kerridge, Mirror[E]ncompasses the totality of human existence...[Green's] knowledge and enthusiasm are obvious.-- Gillian Tindall, Literary Review