Go as a River: Signed Edition (Hardback)
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Go as a River: Signed Edition (Hardback)

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Hardback 320 Pages
Published: 13/04/2023
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Waterstones Says

With echoes of Where the Crawdads Sing, Read's hypnotic debut traces the path of a lifetime in lyrical prose as young Torie Nash absorbs the transformative words of a mysterious stranger.

Signed Edition - A Standard Edition is available here

On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado, then heads into the village. As she nears an intersection, a dishevelled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.
So begins the mesmerising story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.
Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.
Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 2928377174071
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 500 g
Dimensions: 222 x 138 x 40 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature. Tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable.' - Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in chemistry

'A lush, beautiful, strong book. It took me on such a transformative life journey. I could not put it down.' - Clover Stroud

'Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous.' - Jane Green

'Go As a River delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother's love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life is to be savored, treasured, shared.' - Meg White Clayton, author of The Postmistress of Paris

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“beautifully written emotional story”

Go as a River by Shelley Read is a beautifully written, poignant story about one woman’s journey after a fateful choice that changed her life forever.

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Victoria Nash is a teenager in the 1940s living on... More

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“One in a Blue Moon”

Every once in a blue moon a book comes along that you just have to sit with awhile after you finish to let it really sink in, absorb it all. This was one of those blue moons…and from a debut author, no less.

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“Beautiful on so many Levels...Simply Loved!”

Every once in a blue moon a book comes along that you just have to sit with awhile after you finish to let it really sink in, absorb it all. This was one of those blue moons…and from a debut author, no less.

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