2021/040: The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again -- M John Harrison

2021/040: The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again -- M John Harrison

Sea change precludes the single cause, is neither convulsive nor properly conclusive: perhaps, like anyone five fathoms down into their life, he had simply experienced a series of adjustments, of overgrowths and dissolvings – processes so slow they might still be going on, so that the things happening to him now were not so much an aftermath as the expanding edge of the disaster itself, lapping at recently unrecognisable coasts. [loc. 1829]

Shaw is fiftysomething, emerging from an indeterminate crisis, washing up at a lodging house by the Thames.( what is a spoiler in the case of this novel? )