[2] The Element of Water was republished by Parthian in 2018 as part of the Library of Wales series.

It is 1958: Isolde Dahl is a young teacher who goes to work in a British school on the shores of Lake Plön in north-west Germany.

Michael Quantz is an officer in what is left of a shattered German military command as they stage a last chaotic stand before the Allied armies in the final days of the World War II.

As Isolde and Michael meet on the shores of a German lake, the choices they have made and the stories they have told will change their lives again.

Writing in The Observer, A. L. Kennedy chose it as her 'favourite read' of the year, calling it "a wonderful book set around the end of the Second World War and it deals deftly with issues of memory, guilt, love and responsibility.