News at Eleven: [Philip Gross] didn't set out to write a

themed collection, he says, it crept up on him. "It did what water does, it seeps its way into every crack. I would think I had been writing about something else and would end up writing about water. I've come to trust to the things you don't know you're doing, the things that creep up on you, more than the ones you intend."

The water in the book is more physical than metaphorical. It flows, trickles, pours into all sorts of subject areas, from the deep past to an imagined future.

from Scotland on Sunday: Interview: Philip Gross, author

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